dated 8 January 2004 | Nicholas Spice
The Geneva Bubble
Ilan Pappe on the prehistory of the latest proposals
". . . the Geneva project would leave the refugees in exile. The small print says that the Palestinian refugees would be able to choose either to return to what's left of their former country or stay in their camps . . . There is no acknowledgment of the cause of this conflict, the 1948 ethnic cleansing; there is no process of truth and reconciliation that will make Israel accountable for what it did either in 1948 or afterwards. Under these circumstances, neither the Palestinians nor the Arab world at large will feel able to accept a Jewish state."
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n01/papp01_.html