Foreign Affairs committee  As far as I'm concerned, I'd be happy to have them all speak out on the issue.

Foreign Affairs committee  I should say, though, that what we're talking about is events. Most of these refugees came before many of these NGOs were founded. Amnesty started in the 1960s, Human Rights Watch was after that. Hopefully, if they had been around at the time, they would have said something, but

Foreign Affairs committee  Yes, but you see the situation is, we have this group of Palestinians who, I would say, are artificially cantoned in this refugee description to their own disadvantage.

Foreign Affairs committee  Well, in fact, I have talked with officials in the Department of Foreign Affairs about how to use that gavel, and I have raised it in context of this issue. They've historically been reluctant to do so because of the pushback they anticipate from the other side. In my view—and

Foreign Affairs committee  If I may follow up, in the written materials we've done on this, we have referred to the Holocaust and the victims of the Holocaust as a point of comparison, because there were the Nuremberg trials, there's the recognition that Sylvain Abitbol talked about, and there is elaborate

Foreign Affairs committee  Let me respond, if I may. One of our principles, which we have tried to follow throughout, is not to talk down or undercut or deny the rights or plight of Palestinian refugees. Our position is not that they don't have rights or that they weren't treated badly; on the contrary. So

Foreign Affairs committee  In fact, as Stan Urman has mentioned, there have been quite a lot of resolutions passed about Palestinian refugees and none that have specifically mentioned Jewish refugees. There's Resolution 242 of the Security Council that is generic in nature and was purposefully intended to

Foreign Affairs committee  I am happy with Resolution 242. I'm not necessarily saying one has to mention specifically each refugee population. I think a generic wording would be sufficient, something like “all refugee populations”.

Foreign Affairs committee  Stan, why don't you....

Foreign Affairs committee  There are, one can see by looking at the Middle East conflict, not just military conflicts, but also conflicting narratives. If we're going to resolve the conflict, we have to iron out these conflicting narratives. One way of doing it is to bring to the forefront this issue of Je

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you.

Foreign Affairs committee  Thanks for having me back again. I did have a written brief, which I think should have been distributed and translated. I will try to skip over it, so to speak, rather than read it out. The Jewish refugees from Arab countries are entitled to recognition of their rights and ackno