My letter to the San Fran Chronicle RE Israeli concession is no concession at all by Yousef Munayyer

A group of Palestinian girls pause for a picture as they play in an alley of Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp northwest of Amman, Jordan, Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

RE: Israeli concession is no concession at all by Yousef Munayyer
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/04/EDI91AUGM4.DTL

Dear Editor,

The longer that cynics and extremists on both sides are able to drag out the process of the Israel/Palestine conflict the more that Israel is easily able to usurp more and more land- impoverishing and displacing even more Palestinians. Yes there is much to complain about, and there are at least a thousand and one opinions on what Palestinians and Israelis must do... but right now there is a huge global push to make a just and lasting peace in the Middle East a reality. That effort and that reality deserve respect and support- and so do international law and basic human rights.

UNWRA's retiring Commissioner-General Karen AbuZayd states in her recent article in the Guardian Peace must begin with the plight of Palestine's refugees, Sixty years after the UN moved to address the fate of the dispossessed, we need to accept that the injustice endures : "As forced displacements continue across the West Bank, as Palestinians are evicted from their homes in East Jerusalem, I ask a simple question: Is it not time for those engaged in the peace process to muster the will and the courage to address the Palestine refugee question?"

Sincerely,
Anne Selden Annab

Peace must begin with the plight of Palestine's refugees