Don’t forget, Israel didn’t put them in those camps, Jordan and Egypt did. The Arab nations prevented them from building new lives long before 67. “Cannon Fodder” is precisely what they’ve been used for.
But the Palestinian Authority has the first responsibility -- to allow Israel to be secure enough in its own borders to be able to contemplate it.
If the Arab world had allowed Israel to be secure in her borders, there would have been no wars, no occupied territories (they were occupied precisely to secure Israel's borders), no camps. That has not been their agenda, and isn’t today.
True -- but that's not really what I was talking about. Look again at what the author says:
awaiting the fantasy of repatriation to their vanished homes in Israel, rather than building new lives in the Palestinian homeland.
Any normal-thinking Palestinian probably translates this to say: "Even if your family did live here before, we're here now, and we're not leaving. Sucks to be you -- now, go live someplace else."
In real life that's exactly what the Palestinians ought to do: Israel's not going away. But the Palestinians have two choices available to them: either go along with the statement, or fight against it.
But either way they've got a point, and Israel is going to have to address it somehow.