Mr. President. another one of the very grave problems which we face in the Middle East area is the resettlement of the PalestineArab refugees. More than 900.000 are on the rolls of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. financed to the extent of 90 percent of the necessary budget by the United States and Great Britain. Of the total number. it is estimated that only about twothirds. or 600.000. are truly PalestineArab refugees in the sense that their original homes were in the area which is now Israel. I had the privilege of seeing one of the large refugee camps outside Gaza only 2 months ago. About onethird of the refugees are located in the Gaza Strip. and the remainder are primarily in Jordan. Subject to U. N. administration. it should be possible to induce PalestineArab refugees in the Gaza Strip to seek resettlement. for the major barrier toward such resettlement has been the intransigeance of the Arab host governments and their propaganda directed toward the refugees. urging them not to be resettled. Indeed. Mr.
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