This is the final absorption of the refugee into nation-state logic,
erasing the refugee’s legal and political status in favor of coerced
assimilation into states that are themselves subordinated in the imperial
hierarchy. The transfer of services to host states is an abandonment,
a reconfiguration of oppression from donor regimes to other host
state entities, enabling the diffusion of accountability and violations of
Resolution 302 and Resolution 194. Palestinian refugees become surplus
populations in systems that do not accommodate them, effectively
pushing them further into informal economies, and marginalization.
This is the scenario that most clearly signals the institutional liquidation
of Palestinian refugees as rights-holders.
Scenario four is a blueprint for the final enclosure of Palestinian
refugeehood by neoliberal statecraft through bureaucratic erasure. It
asks Palestinians to accept less in the name of stability, to trade rights
for survival, and to normalize a future without UNRWA. This scenario
does not negate the Palestinian refugees’ right to reparations, including
durable solutions, as it is grounded in customary international law.
However, it constitutes a denial of the international community’s
responsibility for the forced displacement of Palestinians since the
Nakba, displacement that was triggered by the adoption of UNGA
Resolution 181 (the Partition Plan) in 1947. It fragments the refugees
and their issue as a national group with well recognized rights by
localizing their status, conditions and rights. Additionally, it reflects
the international community’s ongoing failure to provide a just and
durable solution in the face of the Ongoing Nakba in accordance with
Resolution 194.
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