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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Swedens-Gaza-refugee-contradiction-382197
If Palestine Is a State, How Can Palestinians Living in Palestine Be Refugees?
(Jerusalem Post) Einat Wilf and Jonathan Schanzer - Sweden has recognized the State of Palestine, saying it "fulfills the...criteria of international law: there is a territory, a people and a government." An estimated two million Palestinian refugees currently live in the West Bank and Gaza - the territory that Sweden recognizes as the State of Palestine. But how can they continue to be registered as "refugees from Palestine" - the country to which they demand to return - if a state already exists? Is Sweden prepared to issue a clear statement that Palestinians living in Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza) would no longer be recognized as "refugees"? Einat Wilf is a Senior Fellow with the Jewish People Policy Institute and an Adjunct Fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Jonathan Schanzer is vice president for research at Foundation for Defense of Democracies.