Will Jordan Allow Syria's Palestinian Refugees to Resettle?
As the 2-year-old civil war in Syria drags on and refugees continue to stream from Syria into Jordan, Adnan Abu Amer asks whether Jordan will consider resettling Syria’s Palestinian refugees.
Without warning, Israel has announced that it wants to change the legal status of Palestinian refugees at the United Nations, and that it will demand that the right to return be denied to persons forced to leave Palestine in 1948.
The Israeli announcement was made by Ron Prosor, Israel's UN ambassador, who claimed that the main obstacle to the peace process is the right of return for Palestinian refugees. He said that granting refugee status to their children is misleading, because their legal status has changed throughout history as they became citizens of other countries and lost their original status.
