President. much as I should like to see the Arab States being more conciliatory with Israel and sitting down with Israel to discuss their differences at the conference table. I do not think that an American policy of concessions here and there will have the desired result at all. Certainly the Presidents letter of May 11 as revealed in the press last month has raised some very real doubts about the position of the administration on the refugee question. Although the United Nations has upheld in principle the rights of the refugees to repatriation. in practice it is clearly impossible to return nearly a million refugees to the land of Israel. especially as more than half of the refugees are now under 15 and have. therefore. never themselves lived in Israel. The only practical solution is the resettlement of most of the refugees in Arab territory with some kind of compensation for loss of property in Israel. Yet the Presidents letter of May 11 does not refer to resettlement but speaks only of repatriation and/ordepending on the interpretationcompensation. This could be a significant omission.
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