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Video: Israeli plan angers refugees
Palestinians object to proposal for an 'alternative homeland' in Jordan.
Last Modified: 24 Aug 2009 13:00 GMT

Israeli politicians have proposed making Jordan an alternative home for Palestinians as part of a Middle East peace deal.

But many of Jordan's two million Palestinian refugees object to the plan and there appears little likelihood that Jordanian officials would agree.

Al Jazeera's Nisreen el-Shamayleh, reports from Jordan, on the Palestinians right to return and the reaction to the Israeli proposal.

 

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