It appears that Israel’s foreign minister has firmly told all Palestinians, in a United Nations speech, to make sure they stay out and never attempt to return to their homes.

From Aljazeera: Livni rejects Palestinian right to return:

Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has used a speech at the United Nations to tell Palestinian refugees that they should not expect to be allowed to return to their homes in Israel.

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians fled or were driven out by Israeli forces in the 1948 Middle East war that followed the establishment of Israel and in 1967.

Many Palestinian refugees, the world’s largest refugee population, remain in squalid camps in neighbouring Arab countries. The right of return for them and their descendants has remained a key demand within the peace process…

This is nothing new of course, but I just wonder; if similar demands regarding European property rights and restitution, made by Israelis, or by Jewish people anywhere, were met with this type of response, those giving the response would most likely be called anti-Semitic and would be sued.