“I don’t know,” Abbas said. “I don’t argue with anybody. ‘O.K., you
want your right of return? It’s O.K., when we come to it, we will do our
best to try to fulfill your dreams. According to the Arab Peace
Initiative.’ But at that time, I don’t know whether the 5 million will
ask — maybe some of them will ask for compensation and that’s it. Some
of them will ask, ‘O.K., I will return back to Palestine.’ Some will
return back to Israel. But when they think of it deeply — ‘O.K., you are
going to Israel, to be a member of the Israeli society, to raise the
Israeli flag, to have the identity card of Israel, to have an Israeli
passport?’ ‘Oh, no no.’ We don’t go into details, no, but if somebody
asks, I will answer them: ‘If you want to go to Israel, of course, you
have to be an Israeli citizen. You have to make salute to their national
anthem.’ ‘Oh, no no no!’ Some say, ‘Yes, I will go. I need to go.’”
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