Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: Implantation, transfer or return?

Middle East Policy

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 94-105

  Sayigh, Rosemary ^a  

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EID: 0035611242     PISSN: 10611924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-4967.00009     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. See Jim Quilty, Middle East International, No. 602, June 18, 1999.
2. This term is used by Palestinians and Lebanese to denote final settlement of the refugees in the host countries: Magazine, October 8, 1999.
3. L'Orient/Le Jour, December 1, 1999.
4. Al-Hout has remained the unofficial PLO representative after the closing of the PLO office in 1982.
5. Shafiq al-Hout, interview, January 31, 2000.
6. Other Americans who have proposed refugee redistribution as a solution are Donna Arzt, "Refugees to Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Israeli-Arab Conflict," Council on Foreign Relations; and Frederick Hof, "Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinians," Middle East Insight, reported April 5, 2000, in FOFOGNET.
7. Other Americans who have proposed refugee redistribution as a solution are Donna Arzt, "Refugees to Citizens: Palestinians and the End of the Israeli-Arab Conflict," Council on Foreign Relations; and Frederick Hof, "Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinians," Middle East Insight, reported April 5, 2000, in FOFOGNET.
8. Graham Usher, Middle East International, No. 627, June 16, 2000, pp. 9-11. Haaretz, June 6, 2000, carried a report of a deal that would divide the refugees among Palestine, Israel, Lebanon and other Arab countries.
9. The LSC highlighted the problems posed for Lebanon by the Palestinians in an international conference in Oxford in March 1996; for the papers, see Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, 1997.
10. Report by Smdar Peri, Yediot Aharanot (from Excerpts from the Hebrew Press, September 21, 2000). Also Lamia Lahoud, "Arafat Anxious to Resettle Refugees from Lebanon," Jerusalem Post, September 27, 2000.
11. Report by Smdar Peri, Yediot Aharanot (from Excerpts from the Hebrew Press, September 21, 2000). Also Lamia Lahoud, "Arafat Anxious to Resettle Refugees from Lebanon," Jerusalem Post, September 27, 2000.
12. See Raja Shehadeh, From Occupation to Interim Accords: Israel and the Palestinian Territories (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1997).
13. "Framework for the Conclusion of a Final Status Agreement between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization," October 1995, text downloaded from Newsweek. MSNBC.com, p. 7.
14. Jeff Halper's phrase during an AIC-organized tour around the edge of Jerusalem.
15. Al-Hayat, September 11, 2000.
16. The Jerusalem Post, November 9, 1999.
17. Rony Gabbay, A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict (Geneva: Librarie Droz, 1959); B.N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: U.N. Aid to Palestinians (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
18. Rony Gabbay, A Political Study of the Arab-Jewish Conflict (Geneva: Librarie Droz, 1959); B.N. Schiff, Refugees Unto the Third Generation: U.N. Aid to Palestinians (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1995).
19. The guarantee was contained in a letter from Ambassador Thomas Pickering, under secretary of state. Interview with Premier al-Hoss, February 13, 2000.
20. Farid el Khazen, interview, November 5, 2000.
21. Joseph Samaha, interview, al-Hayat, October 27, 2000.
22. See Ghassan Bishara, Middle East Report, PIN No. 14, February 1, 2000.
23. See Jaber Suleiman, "The Current Political, Organizational, and Security Situation in the Palestinian Refugee Camps of Lebanon," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXIX, No. 1, Autumn 1999.
24. Suheil Natour, interview. May 8, 2000.
25. Khalil el-Habre, head of the Palestinian bureau. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, interview, December 8, 1999.
26. Saqr Abu Fakhr, interview, al-Safir, February 16, 2000. Abu Fakhr noted that not all Lebanese media are anti-Palestinian.
27. E.g. on his trip to Kuwait and the Gulf: Daily Star, April 17, 2000.
28. Mahmoud Abbas, May 29, 2000.
29. Khalil Shatawi, director of the Directorate of Palestinian Refugee Affairs, interview, February 2, 2000.
30. Survey by Simon Haddad, political science professor at the American University of Beirut. Groups covered by the sample were Maronites, Catholics, Orthodox, Shiites, Sunnis, Druze, in proportion to their ratio of the population, over age 18, 36-percent female. Reported May 14, 2000, by FOFOGNET. Full report on the PRRN website.
31. Nawaf Musawi, member of Hizballah's central committee, interview. October 31, 2000.
32. Nawaf Salam, "Between Repatriation and Resettlement: Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Autumn 1994.
33. Farid el Khazen, interview, November 6, 2000.