Preface
Elaine C. Hagopian
Introduction: The Right of Return at Last by Edward W. Said
PART I: THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT
1. The Right to Expel:The Bible and Ethnic Cleansing by Michael
Prior
2. The Historical Roots of the Palestinian Refugee Question by Nur
Masalha
PART II: THE INTERESTS OF THE MAJOR ACTORS
3. Israeli Perceptions of the Refugee Question by Ilan Pappe
4. The United States and the Refugee Question by Noam Chomsky
5. The European Union and the Refugee Question by Alain Gresh
6. The Palestine Liberation Organization: From the Right of Return
to Bantustan by Jaber Suleiman
PART III: RETURN OR PERMANENT EXILE
7. Return or Permanent Exile? by Joseph Massad
8. The Obligations of Host Countries to Refugees under
International Law: The Case of Lebanon by Wadie Said
9. Meeting the Needs of Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon by Nahla
Ghandour
PART IV: REFUGEE CLAIMS AND THE SEARCH FOR A JUST SOLUTION
10. Reinterpreting Palestinian Refugee Rights underInternational
Law by Susan Akram
11. The Right of Return: Sacred, Legal and Possible by Salman
Abu-Sitta
12. Deconstructing the Link: Palestinian Refugees and Jewish
Immigrants from Arab Countries by Jan Abu Shakrah
13. Valuing Palestinian Losses in Today's Dollars by Atif
Kubursi
14. A Programme for an Independent Rights Campaign by Ingrid
Jaradat Gassner
15. Towards Convening a Congress of Return and Self-Determination
by Naseer Aruri
16. Lessons of Holocaust Compensation by Norman G. Finkelstein
Index
Dr. Naseer Aruri is Chancellor Professor (Emeritus) of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth. He is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Trans-Arab Research Institute (Boston), a member of the Executive committee of the Center for policy Analysis on Palestine (Washington, D.C.), and a member of the Board of Directors of the newly-established International Institute of Criminal Investigations (The Hague). He is a member of the Independent Palestinian Commission for the Protection of Citizens Rights (Ramallah) since its inception in January 1994, a Founding Member of the Arab Organization for Human Rights, Cairo and Geneva in 1982, and a member of the editorial board of Third World Quarterly (London). He was also a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch/Middle East, 1990-1992, and a three - term member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International, USA, 1984-1990.
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