Mr. Speaker. one im- dole of about $40 per capita a year. portant problem that a settlement of the Today there are nearly one and a half ArabIsraeli conflict must address is the million Palestinian refugees registered plight of the Palestinian refugees. The with the United Nations refugee agency. United Nations Security Council Resolu- Of these. about 830.000 or roughly 60 tion No. 242 of November 1967.- which percent. receive rations. and of whom provides a framework for the settlement some 40 percent live in camps. Half a of the conflict. calls for "a just settlement million refugees live in East Jordan and of the refugee problem." If no just solu- about 580.000 live in Israeli Occupied tion for these people without hope is Territoriesthe West Bank and Gaza. found. another round of fighting becomes These figures do not include the nearly almost inevitable. The United States 1 million displaced Egyptians and Palesmust redouble its efforts to insure that tinians who have moved from occupied another generation of Palestinians does v territories and the Suez Canal area since not grow up in refugee camps. and to 1967. They still fervently claim a piece find ways and means to provide their of land in the area from which they were lives with hope and dignity. their bodies - dislodged. even while many have found with sustenance and strength. and their new homes and jobs in other areas. vocations with purpose and skills. These refugees have suffered long. and their sufferings continue. There will be no peace in the Middle East until the parties to the ArabIsraeli dispute and the international community lay aside political considerations and focus on the necessity for justice for all the refugees. This is the root of the whole Middle East problem and to deal with other aspects of the Middle East conflict without solving the refugee issues caused by the 1948 fighting is to treat symptoms without eradicating the cause.
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