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Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question
Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Realigning European Policy toward Palestine with Ground Realities
Table of Contents
  1. Executive Summary
  2. Introduction
  3. The PA’s Political Crisis: A European Conundrum
    1. Discomfort with the PA’s Authoritarian Drift
    2. Stability or Better Governance?
    3. Fear of a Pandora’s Box Effect
    4. What PA Leaders Say
  4. A No-contact or a No-action Policy?
    1. The Palestinian Election Conundrum
    2. The No-contact Policy: A Capital Taboo
    3. What Hamas Leaders Say
  5. De Jure vs. De Facto Annexation: Confronting the Two-State Solution’s Feasibility
    1. No to De Jure Annexation
    2. Trying to Compensate with Aid
    3. Dialling Back Europe’s Ambition
    4. Preserving the Illusion of a Status Quo
  6. An Alternative Path
  7. Conclusion
  8. Appendix A: Map of Israel/Palestine
Report 156 / Middle East & North Africa

Bringing Back the Palestinian Refugee Question

With Palestinians increasingly doubtful that the refugee question can be resolved within a two-state framework, the Palestinian leadership should seek to reinvigorate refugee communities as well as to reclaim its representation of them. When diplomacy emerges from its hiatus, the leadership will be able to negotiate and implement a peace agreement only if it wins refugees’ support or at least acquiescence.

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