If anyone should be compensated 60 years later, it is Israel – which lost 1% of its population in the 1948 war (demographically equivalent to three million Americans) and has suffered irreparable damage from the relentless wars and barbaric mass-murder bombings since then. There is unfortunately no “right of return” for those who have lost their lives because of the Arab decisions of 1948 and thereafter.

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Rick Richman, whose work has appeared in The New York Sun, The Tower Magazine, and The Jewish Press, among other publications, is a prolific writer who appears regularly in Commentary magazine and its group Contentions blog, where this originally appeared. He also maintains the Jewish Current Issues blog (www.jpundit.typepad.com/jci/).