THE MIDDLE EAST: The Homeless

THE MIDDLE EAST
The Homeless
For nearly a decade, the most
sensitive political ganglion in the strife-racked body of the Middle
East has been the problem of the Arab refugees from Palestine. In tents
and makeshift camps around Israel's borders from Gaza to Aleppo, they
have livednearly 1,000,000 of themin squalor and bitterness. Israel
stubbornly refuses to take them back. The Arab countries just as
stubbornly refuse to resettle them, on the grounds that this would be
accepting defeat at the hands of Israel.