Palestinian Refugees: A Surplus Population? http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1103/S00512/palestinian-refugees-a-surplus-population.htm

Despite 20 years of peace diplomacy, the majority of the Palestinian people remain in forced exile, mainly as refugees and/or stateless persons vulnerable to persecution and renewed displacement in their host countries. The root causes of Palestinian displacement and dispossession remain unaddressed and there is no respect of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, national independence, sovereignty and return to the homes and properties from which they have been forcibly displaced, despite the United Nations's assertion that "full respect and the realization of these inalienable rights of the Palestinian people are indispensable for the solution of the question of Palestine.[1] Instead, 20 years of peace diplomacy have resulted in a truncated Palestinian people, more than half of whom continue to be afforded the treatment of an "indistinct mass of refugees"[2] or a "surplus population" expected to find individual solutions and to disappear from the political agenda of the peace makers.[3]