The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace is an interesting read. I give it four stars.

Wilf and Schwartz have produced an insightful, well-reasoned, and meticulously and extensively documented treatise zeroing in on one of the stumbling blocks to a permanent peace in the Middle East, the idea that by creating a permanent so-called refugee population, the Arabs could lay claim to the entirety of all of the land west of the Jordan River. The Arab Muslims who claimed the entirety of the former Ottoman Empire sought to extinguish a national liberation movement by a war that they lost in a rather humiliating defeat. When people fled the war as people are often bound to do, the Arab states kept them stateless in camps as a Fifth column of hostility to eventually overrun the newly liberated land. These camps were precisely designed and crafted as an alternative to continuing war on the battlefield.

As the authors explain, then began a great fraud, the endless lists of s0-called refugees, which included anyone who signed their names, be they actual refugees, seasonal agricultural workers, economic migrants who had only lived in the land west of the river for a year or two, or economically deprived individuals who signed up for the welfare benefits offered by the camps. And then, they were classified as no refugees anywhere else ever has been: by offering permanent refugee status to their descendants (even those who became citizens of Jordan and Syria) in an effort to continue the war without end. The authors then trace how the camps under the auspices of the UN became islands fomenting violent terrorism through educational indoctrination as the PLO with the UN's complicit support began a campaign of the most savage and brutal terror at airports, on airlines, at Entebee, and at the Munich Olympics.

Finally, the authors explain how the existence of the so-called refugees (most of whom would not qualify as refugees under any but the most unique definitions) have prevented the Oslo Accords from meaning anything because the goal of Arafat and Abbas has always been to use them to flood Israel and overwhelm it with hostile forces. Indeed, even in areas that the PA and Hamas has autonomy, they have maintained the camps to use to invade Israel with. The conclusion that the authors draw is that there can be no permanent peace unless the PA and Hamas concede that there can be no resettlement of millions of hostile Arabs into Israel proper.

Based upon historical facts and information, the authors, left-wing Israeli politicians, outline just how the international community and the Arab leaders specifically, have kept the Palestinian refugee issue alive in the hopes of ultimately destroying Israel.

It begins with a factual look at how the refugee crisis began and what has kept the refugee issue alive. Citing dozens of well known Middle East experts the authors put together an understanding of the historical fight for the creation of the State of Israel, the rejectionism of the Arab world, and the jaded (even antisemitic) view taken by the world's great powers. It is a detailed look at how the Palestinian refugee issue is treated differently than all offer refugee crises in contravention to actual international law. Moreover, they detail exactly where the fault lies and how the UN, and specifically UNRWA itself, is harming the future for the Palestinian People.

The authors devise several realistic steps to solve the issue. The first one being to fold UNRWA into the UNHCR., To stop treating the Palestinian issue differently than every other refugee crisis in the world has ever been treated. It is time that the world demand that nations who have kept Palestinians in refugee camps for over 70 years be held to account for their human rights violations and that Palestinian leaders who receive billions of dollars in international aide actually start preparing their people for a realistic peace. with Israel

Basically they are telling the Arab world, it's time to grow up. You can no longer cynically use the Palestinian crisis to sidestep your own failures. Israel will not allow it anymore.

The authors also demand that the world stop holding the Jewish State to a double standard when it comes to the Palestinian refugee issue. Citing numerous examples, the authors show exactly how duplicitous the world has been.

This is definitely an interesting book. One that not everyone will like and many will disagree with. But what is important is that this is the Israeli peace camp talking. They need to he beard. It needs to be understood that simply being in the Israeli peace camp also does not mean you are suicidal. It does not mean you are not a Zionist. it does not mean you do not want freedom for the Jewish People and security for the Jewish State.

For anyone truly interested in what the future holds for the Israeli-Palestinian issue, this book is a must read.

I would give this book less than one stars if I could. It's absolutely horrible how little Israelis care about Palestinians and our rights as an indigenous people, and this book clearly shows just that. If you care at all about Palestinians, stay away from this book and do not trust a word of anything these two say.