Condoleezaa Rice wanted to send Palestinians to Chile

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In Bush administration sponsored negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians, Secretary Rice suggested relocating Palestianian refugees to South America, perhaps creating a homeland for them in Chile and Argentina. WTF???

...The United States proposed giving Palestinian refugees land in South America as a radical solution to a problem that has haunted Middle East peace talks for decades.
Condoleezza Rice, the Bush administration's secretary of state, wanted to settle displaced Palestinians in Chile and Argentina as an alternative to letting them return to former homes in Israel and the occupied territories. Rice made the proposal in a June 2008 meeting with US, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators in Berlin, according to minutes of the encounter seen by the Guardian.
During a discussion about international funding to compensate refugees – an estimated 5 million Palestinians are scattered around the Middle East – the US diplomat made a startling suggestion...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/24/condoleezza-rice-palestinian-refugees-south-america
 
A boat was missed after World War Two, when the Jews could have been given a chunk of Germany rather than permitted to displace, harass, and victimize the people who were already in Palestine--the Palestinians.

And before someone goes off on Muslims, most of the Palestinians I know--and I know and have worked with a bunch--are Christians, mostly Baptists.
 
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