“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“The refugees and displaced persons may vote back where they came from in their original municipalities from which hundreds of thousands were expelled through ethnic cleansing. It's a moral dimension to the peace process.”
Robert Frowick
“once a refugee, always a refugee.”
Elie Wiesel
“It is racist to call American citizens refugees.”
Jesse Jackson
“Our staff on the ground reports that a trickle of refugees are crossing the Palk Strait to India in small fishing boats, fearing an escalation in the violence.”
William Spindler
“We have not banned the word 'refugee,' ... We have used it along with 'evacuee,' 'survivor,' 'displaced' and various other terms that fit what our reporters are seeing on the ground. Webster's defines a refugee as a person fleeing 'home or country' in search of refuge, and it certainly does justice to the suffering legions driven from their homes by Katrina.”
Catherine Mathis
“We have not banned the word `refugee,' ... We have used it along with `evacuee,' `survivor,' `displaced' and various other terms that fit what our reporters are seeing on the ground. Webster's defines a refugee as a person fleeing `home or country' in search of refuge, and it certainly does justice to the suffering legions driven from their homes by Katrina.”
