Israel has the same right, nay obligation, to reject “right of return” as any other country that wants to survive would do. Yet, she stands on unstable ground if she argues this from a “moral” position. Palestinians lost the right of return because their Arab compatriots stupidly started a war that they eventually lost, and because in that conflict lots of Palestinians stupidly left their homes instead of standing their ground. Emphasis on the word STUPID, because if the Arabs HAD accepted the original partition plan, or the Arabs hadn’t LEFT after the war began, then Arab population of the new Jewish state in all likelihood would have overwhelmed the Jewish population by now, and the state of Israel would likely have joined the new Arab state that would have been created in (a much larger) West Bank and Gaza, to form a single, non-Zionist entity.
The point is, though, that every serious Isreali leader who genuinely want a peace pact with a Palestinians recognizes that some accomodation of the Palestinian position is necessary. And everyone knows what such an agreement would entail: cold hard cash for families that can produce titles to old land in Israel proper, and letting several thousand elderly Arabs settle there as well.
