Byline: Joshua Mitnick, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
AM'ARI REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - For decades, the residents of this hardscrabble neighborhood on the outskirts of Ramallah have been nourished on "haq al-owdeh" - Arabic for "right of return" to their homes before the 1948 Arab-Israeli war turned them into refugees.
Though the dream of return has become a sacred principle in Arab politics and one of the most difficult issues to resolve in Israeli-Palestinian negotiators, many residents of the Am'ari refugee district admit that the prospects of ever going back sound absurd.
"I don't think there will be any kind of return," said 23-year old Ahmed Badran, whose ...