Refugee flight and Israeli policies toward abandoned property -- UNCCP's early activity on the refugee property question -- Early Israeli policies affecting the property question -- Early Arab and international policies toward the property question -- UNCCP technical program -- Follow up to the technical program -- Refugee property question after 1967
Summary
No issue in the Arab-Israeli conflict has proven more intractable than the status of the Palestinian refugees. This work focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Beyond discussing the extent of the refugees'losses and detailing the methods by which Israel expropriated this property, the book also notes the ways that the property question has affected, and in turn been affected by, the wider Arab-Israeli conflict over the decades. It shows how the property question influenced Arab-Israeli diplomacy and d
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-446) and index
