The author of the article states:

"Israel DID let the Palestinian refugees return! Tens of thousands of them were quietly allowed to return to Israel, in many cases to their original homes, once the fighting in 1949 subsided.   Many continue to be admitted today within the framework of "family reunification" agreements.



From 1948 until 2001, Israel allowed about 184,000 "Palestinian refugees" or their families to "return" to Israel proper (Jerusalem Post, January 2, 2001; see also Ha'aretz 28 December 2000).   These are in addition to about 57,000 Palestinians from Jordan illegally in Israel, towards whom the authorities are turning a blind eye (Ha'aretz, 4 April 2001).   Not the West Bank, not Gaza, but Israel inside its pre-1967 "Green Line" borders! In the Camp David II meetings in 2000, Israeli leftist Prime Minister Ehud Barak rather insanely offered to allow another 150,000 "refugees" to enter Israel as part of a peace accord. The PLO's response was to launch pogroms and four years of atrocities, because the number was finite. "



Now, Please tell me in your own language what '...drive out the Jews from all of Palestine" stated by Palestinian representatives over the past decades'... actually means.