Democratic Palestine : 1 (ص 17)

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Democratic Palestine : 1 (ص 17)

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The myth of resettlement: Only 20 of
units were completed.
these model housing .
nae
The realit
houses.
y in the Gaza Strip: 2 room prefab resettlement
Duheisheh resident: “If they are really
humanitarian, as they say, let them
remove the barricades with which
they close the camp’s road, making
our people look like animals in a zoo.”
confined by many Zionist colonies,
reduced to the situation of the
Palestinians in the Zionist state, and
inclined to emigrate altogether.
“No” to resettlement
Despite the fact that Porat’s project
was launched at a very critical time for
the Palestinian struggle, our people
have clearly rejected it. Those who
have moved have been forced to do so
by the destruction of their houses. In
the past, the Palestinian people have
aborted resettlement plans, despite
their hard living conditions. Today,
they are capable of doing the same to
Porat’s project. This requires unity
among all the national institutions,
organizations, committees, unions,
etc., in the occupied _ territories.
Moreover, it requires the political,
moral and material support of the
PLO and all its forces on the local and
international level. A national program
must be worked out to confront this
dangerous project, to wage a mass
campaign against resettlement and
provide aid to the national institutions.
In particular, the Palestinian National
Front must be revived as the leader of
the Palestinian people’s struggle in the
occupied territories. Furthermore,
there must be a continuous public
campaign, with activities condemning
the resettlement project, for it is truly a
plan to destroy the Palestinian people’s
right to their homeland. ;
Past Plans for Resettlement
In August 1949, an international
committee proposed irrigation and
road-building projects that should lead
to employment for the Palestinian
refugees. Then came a US plan to.
resettle the refugees as part of a
general program for developing the
Middle East. According to this plan,
the candidate states would receive
economic and technical aid from an
agency financed by the US, Britain
and France, for drawing refugees
living there into economic projects
and resettling them, regardless of their
desire to return to their homeland. At
the same time, ‘Israel’ should accept
the return of 100,000 Palestinians to
overcome some of the political
obstacles. However, this project
failed. The Palestinians rejected any
attempt to resettle them. Moreover,
the US failed to extract Arab
recognition of the Zionist state, which
was a prerequisite for the plan getting
underway.
On Dec. 11, 1951, the Director of
UNRWA made a report to the UN
General Assembly in which he
requested a $250 million three year
budget. Of this, $200 million was to be
used for projects to assimilate
Palestinian refugees economically,

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