The Moledet Party, whose leader Rabbi Benny Elon succeeded Gen. (res). Rechavam
Ze’evi upon the latter’s assassination last October, is engaged in a public
relations campaign to promote its idea of “transfer” as the solution to the
Israeli-Arab problem. The proposal calls for the transfer of Arabs out of
Judea, Samaria, and Gaza and into Jordan, the “original” Palestine. A pamphlet
distributed with this past weekend’s Ma’ariv newspaper notes that Dr. Fridtjof
Nansen of Norway won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922 for his idea to exchange
populations between Greece and Turkey. The populations transferred in this
manner numbered no less than 1.3 million Greeks and 400,000 Turks, each of
whom returned to their respective homelands. For his work with refugees
and helping successfully implement this idea, Dr. Nansen won the Nobel Peace
Prize. For more information, see “http://www.mnc.net/norway/Nansen.htm”.

The Moledet Party also quotes the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin,
in the book “Chiefs of Staff Talk,” on the topic of transfer:
“Problems of this natures [the refugees] have been solved by moving
populations… The Soviet Union brought about border changes in Eastern
Europe, leading to the movement of population in the 30-millions [of people]…
One of the examples of this was in Sudetenland, from which three million
Germans were evacuated… Certainly we need not use force the way the Soviet
Union did, but in my opinion we can bring about the movement of population
in other ways.”

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 19th, 2002 and is filed under hotnews.