The Palestinian sympathizer in the woodpile

Who is responsible for the insertion of the phrase "right of return" deep inside the just-released Iraq Study Group report in reference to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?

A reference to Palestinians' "right of return" in the report issued by the high-level Iraq Study Group broke a diplomatic taboo which sparked immediate concern in Israel and surprise among Middle East policy experts.

The reference was buried deep inside a 160-page report that urged US President George W. Bush to renew efforts to revive Israel-Palestinian peace talks as part of a region-wide bid to end the chaos in Iraq.

The U.S. has never officially used the phrase. It doesn't even appear in the Oslo accords or in the original U.N. verbiage. But someone put it into the report.

... they do not use the term "right of return", which is a long-standing Palestinian demand -- rejected by Israel -- that Palestinians who fled or were driven out of what was to become the Jewish state in 1948, as well as their descendants, be allowed to return home.

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"'Right of return' is not in Oslo I or Oslo II, it's not in the Bush Rose Garden speech, it's not even in UN 181, the original partition resolution -- it's part of the Palestinian discourse," said (a) US analyst.

Only a complete idiot would think that the phrase got into the document by accident.

Only a complete liberal would think that it belongs there.