Re: [R-G] "Tikkun Community Reaffirms Its Commitment to UFPJ"

["dmschanoes" <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

These are really easy questions, and I need to relax before the Yankees
choke and Herr Steinbrenner shoots them all....
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From: "Juan Fajardo" <fajardos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Well, for example, return to where precisely:  Back to the Palestinian
> territories, or back to areas within the state of Israel?
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That's easy-- to Palestine, all of Palestine including that part separated
out as a Zionist state.
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> Or, who can return?  Do those born abroad have the right of "return"?
> If so, for how many generations?    Is that right automatic, or are
> there conditions --proof of former residence, exit in or after 1947,
> renunciation of other citizenship?  What of the status of the "refugees"
> and "stateless" Palestinians in surrounding countries -- will they be
> forced back or allowed to remain in their present homes?
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That's easy too.  All Palestinians living anywhere in the world, if they
desire.  The right of return is not the obligation to return.  The right is
automatic, exercise of the right is optional.  No proof is required.
Everyone knows that when a settler state takes over all previous proofs are
thrown out the window by the settler class in its expropriation.  This is
like asking Native Americans to provide deeds to their lands  pre-dating
expropriation.  It's like asking the liberated Jews from concentration camps
to prove their ownership of art, department stores, silverware, gold rings,
prior to the Nazi expropriation.
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> All that, of course, is quite apart from the question of whether
> Palestine can absorb all those people coming back, or will they, like
> the Salvadorans, have to win the right to return for refugees only to
> have to basically beg them not to excersise it as the economy a) could
> not cover an influx of people, and b) could not do without the money
> those people sent from abroad every month.
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This isn't that hard either.  The limitations are economic limitations, in
El Salvador and the Mideast.  They are class limitations to be overcome by
overcoming that class imposing such limitations.  Right of return is
proposed as part of a revolutionary program, not as a privilege bestowed
after the triumph of counterrevolution.

dms.







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