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“Neither the US nor Israel should assume any blame or guilt for the situation of the muslim refugees from the 1967 war.”

Instead of “1967”, I would say “from the 1948 invasion and occupation” of the area containing Judea and Sameria by Trans-Jordan. These areas are historically part of Israel, and meant to be part of the Jewish Homeland as proposed by the Palestinian Mandate. The invasion was by five Arab nations, Including “Trans-Jordan” in an attempt to wipe Israel and all Jews off the map.

Trans-Jordan occupied Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem and renamed itself “Jordan”, since Trans-Jordan means the area east of the Jordan River. The newly named "Jordan" then began wiping out any evidence of the millennium long, continual occupation of Jerusalem by Jews. They destroyed synagogues, places of worship, and desecrated Jewish graveyards, using the gravestones to pave the urination areas in their military latrines.

“The Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries was the departure, flight, migration and expulsion of 800,000–1,000,000 Jews, primarily of Sephardi and Mizrahi background, from Arab and Muslim countries, mainly from 1948 onwards.”

“In all between 1948 and 1972 about 840,000 Jewish refugees fled from the countries of the Arab world, and about 580,000 found refuge in Israel.” The remaining Jewish refugees settled elsewhere in non-Arab nations.

So about 840,000 Jewish refugees were absorbed by Israel and other nations. But the Arab residents (many who had migrated into the area from surrounding Arab nations within 100 years of modern Israel's founding), and chose to flee the new nation of Israel, were refused residency in the surrounding Arab nations.

These refugees were placed in refugee camps in the Arab nations surrounding Israel and used as a political tool in an effort to deny Israel's right to exist.

The Arab residents that chose to stay, following the founding of Israel, are citizens of Israel, and serve in the military and in the government of Israel.

There are 22 Arab countries in the world with a population of 423,000,000, yet they will not let the “Palestinian Arab refugees” settle, or have citizenship.

Israel had a population of 716,700 in 1948. “Of the 820,000 Jewish refugees between 1948 and 1972, more than 200,000 found refuge in Europe and North America while 586,000 were resettled in Israel.”

Shame on the Arab nations for not resettling the Arab refugees, while demanding that the European nations absorb over a million of their own refugees.