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CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE RIGHT OF RETURN AT LAST

Part I: The Historical Context

1. THE RIGHT TO EXPEL: THE BIBLE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING

2. THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE QUESTION

Part II The Interests of the Major Actors

3. ISRAELI PERCEPTIONS OF THE REFUGEE QUESTION

4. THE UNITED STATES AND THE REFUGEE QUESTION

5. THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE REFUGEE QUESTION

6. THE PALESTINIAN LIBERATION ORGANIZATION: FROM THE RIGHT OF RETURN TO BANTUSTAN

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Part III: Return or Permanent Exile

7. RETURN OR PERMANENT EXILE?

8. THE OBLIGATIONS OF HOST COUNTRIES TO REFUGEES UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE CASE OF LEBANON

9. MEETING THE NEEDS OF PALESTINIAN REFUGEES IN LEBANON

Part IV: Refugee Claims and the Search for a Just Solution

10. REINTERPRETING PALESTINIAN REFUGEE RIGHTS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW

11. THE RIGHT OF RETURN: SACRED, LEGAL AND POSSIBLE

12 DECONSTRUCTING THE LINK: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES AND JEWISH IMMIGRANTS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES

13. VALUING PALESTINIAN LOSSES IN TODAY'S DOLLARS

14. A PROGRAMME FOR AN INDEPENDENT RIGHTS CAMPAIGN

15. TOWARDS CONVENING A CONGRESS OF RETURN AND SELF-DETERMINATION

16. LESSONS OF HOLOCAUST COMPENSATION

NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS