I guess I will channel one of my "favorite" anti-Israel diarists tonight and just post newspaper clippings. But I was so shocked to see this in print that I couldn't let it go. The bottom line - a Saudi columnist, Yousef Nasser Al-Sweidan, writing in a Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Siyassa, has said what people on DKos seem so incapable of saying, that "The Right of Return is an Illusion."
Since I don't get Al-Siyassa, and I assume it would be in Arabic anyway, I have posted the summary of the story from MEMRI. Here is the link.
Here are the author's four main points. I won't post the text to avoid copyright problems, but I encourage all to read it.
The Right of Return - An Idea that Cannot Be Implemented
The Refugee Problem is the Result of Mistakes By the Host Countries
The Refugees Don't Need Another 60 Years of Misery
The Inevitable Solution is to Naturalize the Refugees in the Host Countries
As you can see, the author's main point is that the refugee problem has, to a large extent been caused by Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, and that it is the responsibility of these countries to end the situation by naturalizing all Palestinian refugees.
I'll even add to that, since I believe in a 2-state solution, that any Palestinian wishing to settle in what will become Palestine is welcome to do so.
But anyone who believes that the Palestinians should be allowed to return to Israel is, frankly, either delusional that it would ever be accepted and, thus lead to peace, or so anti-Israel that their main goal is not Middle East peace, but rather the destruction of Israel.