Replies to post #456839 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[sortagreen]

My statement was "I understand (second hand I admit) from someone that was in the room".

Do you find it odd that I would know someone that travels in such circles? Why wouldn't I know other more progressive Jewish people? People who might have a library of works by Benny Morris, Tom Segev, Simha Flapan and others. Do you imagine every Jewish person but me subscribes to you radical Judaic terrorist doctrine?

You know what? Fuck you.

Hell, as a young man I had at least two professors who worked in the Kennedy State Department. Would that be bullshit also? It's not as if the US government hires only people from Mars.

As to Arafat inventing the right of return? Fuck you again.

And where did you live in Galicia? Do you still have the deed?

The right of return is a principle in international law which guarantees everyone's right of voluntary return to, or re-entry to, their country of origin or of citizenship. The right of return is part of the broader human rights concept freedom of movement and is also related to the legal concept of nationality.[1] While many states afford their citizens the right of abode, the right of return is not restricted to citizenship or nationality in the formal sense.[2] It allows stateless persons and for those born outside their country to return for the first time, so long as they have maintained a "genuine and effective link".[2][3]

The right is formulated in several modern treaties and conventions, most notably in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the 1948 Fourth Geneva Convention. Legal scholars have argued that one or more of these international human rights instruments have attained the status of customary international law and that the right of return is therefore binding on non-signatories to these conventions.[4][5]

The right of return is often invoked by representatives of refugee groups to assert that they have a right to return to the country from which they were displaced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_return