Interesting points, EA. I always took it it to mean return of property as well as return of national status. Most Palestinian refugees didn't live within Israel proper, most of them stayed (the Israeli Arabs you hear about). Most refugees came from Gaza and the West Bank, or so I thought.

Is that the idea behind Right of Return? They'll just got enough people within the borders of Israel with voting rights to vote it out of existence? I thought they were claiming 90% of the property in Haifa and Tel Aviv was really theirs....