if israel thinks that palestinian refugees and their descendants will lose their desire to return with time they are very wrong... and they just need to look at their own example. palestinians have been subject to atrocities and forced to live in camps for being palestinian not just in israel/palestine but in Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. their persecution by israel and even by fellow arabs strengthens their national identity and theyll likely want to live with other palestinians who share that identity and that other-ness, just like the jews did. the arabs of bilad al-sham (formerly the diocese of the east, which includes palestinians, jordanians, syrians, and lebanese) were originally one nation, but no more. the palestinians have been made into the jews of the arabs, and I'm not the first to say that.

edited for accuracy, the palestinians werent one nation, they were part of bilad al sham