Israel’s Policy Regarding Palestinian Refugee Real Estate Holdings Israel’s State Records

• Published in: Compensation to Palestinian Refugees and the Search for Palestinian-Israeli Peace p. 89
• Main Authors: Roby Nathanson, Hagar Tzameret-Kertcher
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Pluto Press 20.11.2015
• Subjects: Applied arts; Architectural elements; Architecture; Arts; Building service employees; Civil law; Cleaning staff; Custodians; Data products; Economic disciplines; Economics; Eminent domain; Employment; Expropriation; Foreign residents; Historical methodology; Historiography; History; History of religion; Human geography; Human populations; Human rights; Information science; Interior spaces; Jewish history; Jewish refugees; Labor economics; Land law; Land ownership; Law; Metropolitan areas; Occupations; Palestinian refugees; Peace studies; Persons; Political geography; Population studies; Property law; Property ownership; Property ownership transfers; Refugees; Refugees & political asylum; Rooms; Social sciences; Villages
• ISBN: 0745333362; 9780745333366
• DOI: 10.2307/j.ctt183p97g.12

One of the main bones of contention between the Israeli and the Palestinian sides in the negotiations over a comprehensive peace agreement has been the question of compensation for the Palestinian refugees. A wide literature exists on the possible solutions to the refugee problem, which usually relates to issues such as mechanisms of reparation, repatriation, lump-sum compensation payments, and so on. However, this body of research lacks a basis in definitive records of the Palestinians’ property holdings in 1948. Some of the studies that have been published on the subject are comprehensive, but they are not exhaustive; most of them