Thabit: Any agreement without the RoR not worth paper its written on

[ 19/06/2009 - 09:58 PM ]

BEIRUT, (PIC)-

The Palestinian Organization for the Right of Return known as "Thabit" has urged the United Nations and the World community to pay more attention to the suffering of the millions of Palestinian refugees living in the Diaspora, and to pressure the Israeli occupation authority into allowing them return to their homeland.

In a statement it issued on Friday, and a copy of which was obtained by the Quds Press, Thabit warned that the United States and the IOA were striving hard to drop the right of return in service to their political agenda in the region.

But Thabit underlined that the RoR was and will remain an unalienable right of the refugees despite the passage of time, and thus, it added, "No country or authority in this world has the right to abandon or drop that right under any circumstances because the RoR is the right of the present and the future Palestinian generations".

Moreover, Thabit underscored that the Palestinian people hadn't authorized anyone to abandon or drop the RoR on their behalf, and thus, it asserted, any effort in this regard would be deemed as null and void.

According to Thabit, the issue RoR is one of the major Palestinian national constants as it deals with the Palestinian individual, adding that the latest speech of Israeli premier Binyamin Netanyahu of "finding a solution to the refugees' issue outside the "borders of the Zionist entity" must be taken seriously and must be dealt with decisively.

Thabit pointed out that the speech of Netanyahu simply means to drop the RoR and to settle the Palestinian refugees in their host countries, pointing out that agreeing to Netanyahu's condition of recognizing Israel as "Jewish state" would entail the transfer of more than 1.3 million Palestinians living inside the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands out of their homes.

According to the records of Thabit, the Palestinian population jumped to more than 10 million, at least 70% of them were living as refugees inside occupied Palestine, in neighboring Arab countries, and in many countries in the six continents of the world, highlighting that the Palestinian people had said their final word that they won't drop the RoR under any circumstances.

Thabit: Refugees will not recognize the judaizing of Palestine

Date: 19 / 06 / 2009  Time:  13:17
Beirut - Ma’an -

A prominent Palestinian refugee society in Beirut rejected demands Israel be recognized as a “Jewish State” in a statement marking World Refugee Day.

Thabit, the Palestinian Organization for the Right of Return called on the UN to pressure Israel into accepting the Palestinians forcibly expelled from their homes in 1948. “Without the return of the refugees,” a report published by Thabit said, “there is no value to the land or a state.”

The report condemned proposals that called for the re-settlement of Palestinian refugees outside the bounds of a Palestinian State, saying that meant “writing off the Right or Return.”

According to the report six million of the ten million Palestinians worldwide are refugees, two thirds of which are living in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem. Another two million were said to live in Jordan, and then a million split between Syria and Lebanon as well as hundreds of thousands of others dispersed across the globe.

The Thabit report laid out eight facts, in honor of World Refugee Day

First: “Occupation is not forever” the report said, citing the departure of the French in Algeria, the British in India, the Italians in Libya ad the Americans in Vietnam, noting “the fate of the occupation in Palestine will not be an exception.”

Second: “Anyone writing off the Right of Return is serving American and Israeli interests,” the report stated.

Third: “The Right of Return is inalienable” said the report, “thus no person, state, authority or organization has the right to negotiate or waive on it. It is a right that is related to the issue of entire people, thus no one can deny such a right.”

Fourth: The Israeli attempt to waive the Right of Return is illegal under the Fourth Geneva Convention and renders their occupation likewise illegal, the report said.

Fifth: The Diaspora is waiting in temporary conditions waiting for the Right of Return. “There is no alternative.”

Sixth: The Right of Return is for all Palestinian refugees and not “only a specific number.”

Seventh: Palestinians adhere to the UN declaration of the 1948 Nakba as a crime and call on member countries to uphold their obligations.

Eighth: The new Lebanese government must make the issue of Palestinian refugees in the country and the guarantee of their civil rights a priority as Lebanon presses for the Palestinian Right of Return