﻿ Refugees fearful of loss of `right of return' - Taipei Times
Thu, Nov 11, 2004 - Page 7　News List  Refugees fearful of loss
of `right of return'  ARAFAT'S PROMISE Refugees worry that the
Palestinian president's successor will strike a deal with Israel
preventing them from returning to properties lost in 1948   Abu
Ahmad al-Sukari, 70, a Palestinian who lives in the al-Yarmouk
refugee camp in Syria shows deeds proving his possession of
lands in Israel on Tuesday.   Yasser Arafat promised
Palestinians he would return them to the homes they lost when
Israel was founded in 1948. He never delivered, and now many
refugees wonder whether anyone can.  Arafat, whose name became
synonymous with the Palestinian cause in the four decades he led
his people, "was the only one with the stature to wrest that
right," said Ashraf Majzoub, a refugee from the Israeli seaside
town of Acre.  "We fear that whoever will succeed him will
strike a deal with Israel for a Palestinian state to which we
won't even be allowed to go," he