Summary
The London centre that published Salman Abu Sitta’s Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible in its second and revised edition (May 1999), and his 1998 Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine and 1948 map, as the References of the 1999 book record them (Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible, lines 142-154, lines 1763-1768).
Details
- The Publishers’ Note of Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible, signed “PRC, London, May 1999.”, presents the centre as publishing the study “as part of its own effort to advance the cause of the displaced Palestinians”, in response to the first edition’s success, popular demand for a reprint and rapid political developments; the note’s author block gives Abu Sitta’s affiliation as “Palestine Return Center, London.” (lines 130-154).
- The centre’s position, as the unsigned note states it: the displaced Palestinians’ issue is fundamentally a political problem derived from breach of international law; return is a fundamental humanitarian, legal and national right whose repatriation is the obligation of the international community as well as Israel; and any attempt to resettle the displaced in countries other than Palestine should be resisted (lines 142-154).
- The 1999 book’s References list the centre as London publisher of Abu Sitta’s “The Palestinian Nakba 1948, The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine” (1998) and of his map “Palestine 1948, The Towns and Villages Depopulated by the Zionist Invasion of 1948” (1998) (lines 1763-1768).
Related pages
Salman Abu Sitta, Palestinian Right of Return: Sacred, Legal, and Possible, The Palestinian Nakba 1948 — The Register of Depopulated Localities in Palestine, Palestine Land Society, Right of Return