" the matter has never been raised."
The matter is one of the fundamental points of all peace talks and has been raised time after time
Each time, the Israelis have offered to allow a few to return if they agree to give up the right to their old homes and settle on whichever toxic rubbish dump Israel chooses to dump them on
They also have to sign an agreement on behalf of all refugees to relinquish any claim on their homeland.
Each time the offer has been made it has been a subject of non-negotiation and immediately withdrawn.
Maps be fucked - these are lands settled for millenia by all peoples concerned.
"The conditions that the people of Gaza have found themselves living under have been entirely the result of choices"
The conditions are those made out of necessity by impoverished people with no choice whatever - for christ sake, there is enough film footage of the overcrowded nature of these camps with their virtually non-existent facilities and the constant stream of new refugees arriving daily, having been displaced by encroaching settlements.
The Bedoins have physically been forced en-masse from their villages by arial-delivered chemical sprays and high powered water cannon - to make room for settlers.
I must have overlooked your hand-painted version the last time I read Th Brothers Grimm collection.
The Gazan weapons are to prevent this from happening as much as possible
Jim Carroll