Oddly, it was Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who, by requesting that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state, reopened the 1948 file. That demand brought the quest for peace back to its fundamentals, where the question of the refugees is bound to play a central role.
奇怪的是，重新翻开1948年档案的是以色列总理本雅明·内塔尼亚胡，他的目的是要求巴勒斯坦人承认以色列这个犹太国家。内塔尼亚胡的要求致令对和平的探索向本质问题回归，而难民问题注定要成为其中的核心事务。