Israel reportedly plans to ask the international community to help resettle Palestinian refugees. According to Tuesday’s report on Israel’s Army Radio, the Foreign Ministry blueprint calls for foreign investment to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan to become fully assimilated and rehabilitated. Israel also plans to ask some states to take in an undisclosed number of Palestinian refugees as part of a comprehensive peace settlement, Army Radio said. The Foreign Ministry did not comment. The Palestinian Authority demands a “right of return” for refugees from the 1948 war in which the Jewish state was founded. Israel rules this out as demographic suicide.
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