What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Sizable Jewish communities existed in Judea and Samaria prior to 1948. These communities were wiped out by Palestinian Arab mobs in 1920, 1929 and 1936 and during the openly genocidal war waged by Palestinian militias and Arab governments in 1947-48. In an exhaustive and authoritative expose, Lyn Julius reminds us that:

    Until it was wiped out by Palestinian pogroms in 1929, there was a large Jewish community in the center of Hebron.

    The Jewish population of Jerusalem (which has had a Jewish majority since at least the second half of the 19th century) was dispossessed by the Arab riots of 1929 and 1936 (when most fled what is now called the Muslim Quarter). In 1948, the Jordanian Legion expelled all the Jews remaining in the East of the city and destroyed its holy places.

    "Another 16,684.421 dunams of Jewish land in the rural West Bank – including the Gush Etzion settlements, land between Nablus, Jenin and Tulkarm, and in Bethlehem and Hebron – were seized by the Jordanians after 1948."

    The 'Jewish settlements' north of Jerusalem, Atarot and Neve Yaakov, were evacuated in 1948, under the declared threat of advancing Arab armies to massacre all the Jews in their path.

    Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live on land in and around Jerusalem that is still owned by the Jewish National Fund, including the Kalandia "refugee camp" and the Deheishe "refugee camp" south of Bethlehem.

    In Abu Dis, where Palestinians want to establish their government, 600 dunams of land are Jewish-owned. The Arab riots of 1929 and 1936 forced Jews to flee those areas.

    Iraqi and Iranian Jews owned 145,976 dunams on the West Bank which they had to leave due to violence.

And unlike the Palestinian Arabs, these Jewish communities were displaced or destroyed through no fault of their own. As even Benny Morris, the eminence grise of historians who have accused Israel of expulsions in 1948 has stated,"[t]he Arabs have only themselves to blame for the (unexpected) results of the war that they launched with the aim of "ethnically cleansing" Palestine of the Jews."

In sum, the supposed collective "right of return" of "refugees" as promoted by anti-Israel propagandists, if applied fairly to all as per the language of the clauses invoked, would provide Israel with an undeniable claim to huge, disputed areas in Jerusalem, Hebron, Gush Etzion, Bethlehem, Abu Dis, the north of Jerusalem up to Ramallah, and large swaths of the West Bank.

The "Right of Return"… to Judea and Samaria.