In a certain sense, Olmert is being honest since Israel doesn’t consider the West Bank “occupied” land but rather a “disputed” territory.
The fact that the West Bank is already dotted with hundreds of Jewish-only settlements, inhabited by racist-minded Talmudic fanatics who view non-Jews as animals whose lives have no sanctity or value, makes it extremely difficult if not outright impossible for any Israeli government to leave the entirety of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Moreover, East Jerusalem , the contemplated capital of the contemplated but unlikely Palestinian state, has already been reduced to a ghetto, surrounded on all sides by Jewish settlements.
Indeed, Israel and Zionism are about expulsion and deportation and ethnic cleansing of non-Jews, and allowing the refugees to return home would be Zionism’s ultimate antithesis.
Hence, a voluntary and willful acceptance by Israel of the return of a significant number of Palestinian refugees to their former homes and property in what is now Israel would be even beyond day-dreaming.
So, if Israel is going to tell the Arab League delegation “No to Jerusalem, No to the right of return and no to withdrawal to the 1967 borderline,” then for God’s sake why dispatch a delegation to Israel in the first place.
In the final analysis, the Arabs are acting as beggars, and beggars, as we all know, can’t be choosers.

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