In any imagined deal, except for Israel possibly accepting a token amount of "refugees", everyone assumes they will resettle in the new Palestine. This may seem doable but in reality it would prevent a peaceful two-state solution from emerging.Israel now has about 6.0 million Jews including those living east of the greenline and 1.5 million Arabs.  Gaza and the West Bank have about have about 1.4 and 1.6 million Arabs respectively. In total there are 4.2 million Arabs in the combined territory. The total number of Arab refugees including their descendants exceed 4.2 million located as follows; 400,000 Lebanon, 400,000 in Syria, 2 million in Jordan some of whom have been given citizenship and the rest in Gaza and elsewhere. Now if 2 million "refugees" return to the New Palestine, there will be over 6.5 million Arabs compared to 5.6 million Jews in the combined territories. This influx of Arabs will cause civil unrest in the New Palestine due to income and...(Read Full Post)