Wisconsin State Journal · Madison, Wisconsin · 23 June 1967
CP-1967-026
Israel to Settle Refugees in Gaza, West Bank Area
Associated Press, Tel Aviv, Israel
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“TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel plans to settle tens of thousands of Arab refugees in the Gaza Strip and on the west bank of the Jordan River, an authoritative economics writer said Thursday.
Quoting official sources, David Krivine wrote in the Jerusalem Post that the resettlement plans would be made on economic grounds without regard for whatever territorial adjustments eventually may be made between Israel and Arab states.
A refugee rehabilitation and settlement authority would be set up, ‘terminating two decades of confinement and idleness within the refugee camps,’ Krivine wrote. Some refugees have been in camps since they were displaced in the 1948 Palestine war.
The program would be financed by Israel, but world Jewry, international bodies, and the Arabs themselves would be asked to contribute. ‘Much depends on the cooperation of local Arab authorities,’ Krivine wrote. ‘The first step is to get economic activity restored to its former levels.’”
Context added by this archive
Eighteen days after the war, a plan to settle the refugees where they are, sourced to an Israeli newspaper quoting official sources. The word for what happened to them in 1948 is displaced, and the two decades in the camps are described as confinement and idleness.
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"Israel to Settle Refugees in Gaza, West Bank Area," Wisconsin State Journal, 23 June 1967, p. 1. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1967-026. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1967-026
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