At a Foreign Ministry conference on "Jewish refugees from Arab
nations," Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon urged the Arab world to
recognize its historic responsibility for displacing Jews who once
lived in Arab nations and making them de-facto refugees. Ayalon said
that 50% of Israelis are refugees and descendants of refugees from
those Arab nations. He added that Israel will insist that Palestinian
refugees be absorbed in the future Palestinian state-- the same way
Jewish refugees were absorbed in the State of Israel.
