>If I fled my home today and if the local county recorders office would be destroyed, I could not prove I owned my home.
You should invest in a fireproof safe for your important documents.
That you are a person who does not take proper precautions speaks to your sympathies to others who do not. But, perhaps you can still understand that society cannot reward people who do not consider the consequences of their decisions.
We know that, prior to 1967, the overwhelming majority of Arabs in the place that is today Israel were tenants, paying rents to non-resident landlords (mostly in Damascus). So, there cannot be very many people remaining having a valid claim but simply lacking documentation. As part of a peace agreement, a process could be established by which a quota is allowed for undocumented claims, to be filled during a certain time period, perhaps with judges drawn from the Arab world to make the determinations.
I notice you express no sympathy for the Jews who fled the Arab world, or for the Christian Arabs who fled the Jordanian occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. As an American, I do not judge others based on race or religion. To me, all men are created equal. But for you, it is o.k. for Arabs to profit by forcing the Jews to leave, thereby being able to buy their land at a distress price or even seizing it with no payment at all. Ditto the Muslim Arabs with the Christian Arabs.
No. We Americans have had our own experiences with this. The internment of Japanese Americans and the theft of their property; and, the trail of tears when President Andrew Jackson allowed his political allies in Mississippi and elsewhere to take the land away from the Indians of those place, and force them to relocate to the present state of Oklahoma.
In justice, a peace settlement should recognize the debits as well as the credits of Israel and of the other countries involved. How many Jewish refugees did Israel take in, and net that number from the the number of Arabs who fled Israel. Ditto with the countries who caused Jews and Arab Christians to flee. I am not afraid of fair treatment of the refugee problem.
By the way, would you know how the Arab countries accommodate refugees, and how Israel, the US, the Latin American republics and Australia have accommodated Jewish and Arab Christian refugees?
In the Arab countries, refugees are placed in internment camps, for which the UN makes payments to the governments for their maintenance. As a consequence, the refugee problem remains forever. In democratic countries, the refugees or at least their children come to be citizens and assimilate into the general population. Even so, I do think some of the Arab Christians would like to return to their homeland if there is a peace settlement and if freedom of religion is guaranteed.