Para penentang hak pemulangan menyatakan bahwa tak ada dasarnya dalam hukum internasional dan bahwa ini adalah sebuah tuntutan yang tak realistis.[6]Pemerintah Israel tak memandang pemulangan para pengungsi Palestina ke bekas rumah mereka di Israel sebagai sebuah hak, tetapi lebih sebagai masalah politik yang dituntaskan sebagai bagian dari penetapan perdamaian akhir.[7][8]
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12"U.S. State Department Affirms Support for 5 Million 'Palestinian Refugees'". The Algemeiner. 30 May 2012. Diarsipkan dari asli tanggal 2019-05-11. Diakses tanggal 31 May 2012. [U.S.] Deputy Secretary of State Tom Nides (..) affirmed the State Department's view on the number of Palestinian refugees (..) that the UN and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) "provides essential services for approximately 5 million refugees," (..) Middle East Forum founder Daniel Pipes recently noted in an op-ed for Israel Hayom that only 1 percent of the refugees served by UNRWA fit the agency's definition of "people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict." The other 99 percent are descendants of refugees.
↑"According to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency – the main body tasked with providing assistance to Palestinian refugees – there are more than 5 million refugees at present. However, the number of Palestinians alive who were personally displaced during Israel's War of Independence is estimated to be around 30,000."US Senate dramatically scales down definition of Palestinian 'refugees'Diarsipkan 2023-02-22 di Wayback Machine.
↑Howard Adelman; Elazar Barkan (2011). No Return, No Refuge: Rites and Rights in Minority Repatriation. Columbia University Press. hlm.203. ISBN978-0-231-15336-2. As indicated earlier, the formulation of the right of return first appeared in Count Bernadotte's proposal of 27 June 1948... Bernadotte, who can correctly be viewed as the father of the right to return... But the murder of Bernadotte froze any further discussions on formulating a policy of resettlement.
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