wanted to prevent the emergence of a jewish state had they allowed them back they would have represented a major fifth column inside the jewish state and would have destabilized the jewish state this is clear and this incidentally has been the israeli contention and position since forty eight to the present day they don t want to allow the refugees back because it will turn the jewish state into an arab state or very least create chaos and destabilize a state because they don t want to live under jewish rule. when israel proposed a linebacker hundred thousand palestinian refugees as a compromise the arab states insisted on the return of all refugees. some was lucky the un enabled the return of refugees with families in israel and so he was able to go back to africa to his father together with the other return east some became an israeli citizen one of one hundred sixty thousand. by likud immediately