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Palestinian state would solve right of return

After 67 years, the best way to deal with the Palestinian refugee issue is to allow Palestinians to have their own independent state.

A Palestinian girl holds a cut-out of a key during a rally ahead of the Nakba day in the West Bank city of Bethlehem May 14, 2015. Palestinians mark "Nakba" (Catastrophe) on May 15 to commemorate the expulsion or fleeing of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war that led to the founding of Israel in 1948. The Arabic writing reads, "we will not forget our right of return." REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RTX1CYI7
A Palestinian girl holds a cut-out of a key during a rally ahead of Nakba Day in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, May 14, 2015. On May 15, Palestinians commemorate the "nakba" (catastrophe): the expulsion of some 700,000 Palestinians from their homes in the war of 1948, which resulted in the founding of Israel. The Arabic writing reads, "We will not forget our right of return.” — REUTERS/Ammar Awad

Visualizing Palestine, a Lebanese-based nongovernmental organization, created an interactive map that shows the shrinking Palestinian population in Palestine between 1918 and 2015. The graphic, “Palestine Shrinking, Israel Expanding,” demonstrates in a clear and simple way the catastrophe that has befallen the Palestinians as a result of Zionist immigration to Palestine and their (direct and indirect) expulsion.

The Zionist narrative falsely claims that Palestine is a “land without a people for a people without a land.” In the process of colonization and settlement by Jewish immigrants, Palestinians were dispossessed and made stateless. They have remained stateless for 67 years.

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