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Condoleezza Rice wanted to send the Palestinians in Chile!

Steve Bell's papers on Palestine

N e are in 2008, the chief U.S. diplomat Condoleezza Bush Administration Rice is engaged in discussions with Palestinian and Israeli representatives in Berlin. The fate of the 5 million Palestinian refugees around the world is evoked, when the U.S. secretary of state drops the following idea: " Some countries could contribute in-kind assistance to refugees such as Chile or Argentina ; . Under course, these countries of South America could host Palestinian refugees.

Information is supplied by the British daily The Guardian who obtained the minutes of the meeting in question.

absurd idea? Not that much if you know at the time, Chile had host 117 Palestinian refugees under a social integration program. The Andean country has indeed a Palestinian community estimated at several hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the early twentieth century.

underlying idea: the Palestinian refugees could be accommodated in a land where their community has been installed for a long time ... Because of course it would be too simple facilitating their return to Palestine.

Read the Guardian article.