OK, so you wonder why the Rotberg Plan for Mid-East Peace is the only just plan out there, miles ahead of the Oslo plan, the Tenet plan, the Mitchell Plan, the Saudi Plan, etc. etc.
You see, some Palestinians left in 1948, just as the Arab states invaded because they did not like the UN approved partition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab states.
These Arab residents of what was to be given as a Jewish state, planned to come back, just as soon as the nascent Jewish state could be defeated, and the Jews sent packing back to Europe where the Palestinians were told that the Jews originated. (i.e. they seem to be unaware that the Jews originated in Israel).
The Arab states tried to help them in wars of 1956, 1967 (which turned out to be a really bad idea for the attacking Arabs, because they ended up losing territory, and in 1973.
But you see the Arabs did not really do this to help the Palestinians. That was just to be a by-product of their main goal which was to get rid of any Jewish presence in the Middle East that was not structured as a "dhimmi" or subservient relationship for non-Muslims in Muslim territory.
The proof of this is that between 1948 and 1967 the Arab states were in possession of lands where the Palestinian refugee camps were found. There was no movement at all towards the idea that is now supposedly the cure-all, i.e. giving sovereignty to the Palestinians of this land. If the Jews of Israel are supposedly occupiers now, well it seems to me that the Arabs of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon were occupiers up to 1967.
The Arab countries were so offended by this Jewish State, that they decided to expel in one way or another the Jews that had lived for generations among them, in particular in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Most of the Jews who left those Arab countries were forced to leave property behind. Most of them fled to Israel, the Jewish homeland that constitutionally admits and re-settles any oppressed Jew.
So, one would think that the problem was simply that of a population exchange. And that once the Jews from Arab countries were resettled at Israel's cost in Israel, that the world would tell these Arab states, that they were expected in return to take in the Palestinians.
But the problem with that was the encouragement mainly from Europeans towards the Palestinians that they could retake land in Israel, without showing any cultural tendencies toward peaceful conduct. The Europeans were not bothered that generations of Palestinians were taught that all of the good things that can be accomplished in life should be put on hold until they returned to claim their now improved upon historical lands in Tel Aviv or Haifa. The Europeans were not bothered that Palestinian children learned only hate and violence from the Arab and Palestinian media, education systems and the preaching in the mosques.
So the Norwegians could be proud of persuading the Israelis, so desperate for peace and normalcy for its highly educated population, which didn't want to have endless wars, to go with the Oslo plan. This plan told the Israelis to give up partial sovereignty of Palestinian areas, and transfer powers and even pay for weapons for the so-called Palestinian authority under the lifetime rule of Yassr Arafat.
Of course, Arafat had to explain quietly to his people (who had been told for years that they would get their maximalist aims and never have to compromise), that they should not worry...he had not given up the so-called "right of return". In case there was any question, Arafat arranged that the Palestinian reaction to this European-sponsored Oslo process, was a spectacularly evil two year series of so-called Suicide Bombings (they should be referred to as Genocide Bombings, but the actual term reflects where the European media had its sympathies.) For good measure, the Palestinians found the Europeans to be sympathic to a new historical interpretation...that the Jewish migration to Israel was NOT that of a group of people returning to their homeland, but was instead a way for the Europeans to deal with the fallout of what they had allowed Hitler to do to the Jews. That is why the Palestinians do everything they can to downplay Biblical references to historical Israel, do not accept the archeological findings of Jewish settlements from the Biblical era, and to top everything off, decided that the Al-Aksa mosque erected on top of the ruins of the great Jewish Temple, was a Muslim site only, and that there were no good arguments that the Jewish Temple was there at all! And so, Jerusalem, previously a lesser Muslim city, not mentioned in the Koran, became the focus of all Muslim theology and all Palestinian myth making that it was somehow a Palestinian city. The really fascinating part of this, is that the Palestinians soon found that their anti-Zionist allies in European universities, trade unions, and increasingly in the European parliaments, were actually receptive to their arguments that the Holocaust, the single biggest blemish on European history, was actually exaggerated by those Jews to extort the world into overlooking their crimes of settlement of what should be Muslim lands. (The Koran holds that once lands are ruled over, even temporarily by Muslims, they must remain in Muslim hands forever.) So the Europeans, who failed in their attempt to kill most of the world's Jews, could now feel better as they viewed the Jews again as some horrible people who oppressed the poor Palestinians. So a European attempt to villify the Jews again, this time to excuse the behaviour of their fathers and mothers during the 30s and 40s (and in fact for a history of anti-Semitic oppression during the centuries of Jewish settlement in Europe) dovetailed nicely with the Arab/Palestinian narrative that the Jews manipulated the legacy of the Holocaust, to the detriment of the poor Palestinians. What really tickled the Europeans and the Palestinians was when some Jewish academics like Norman Finklestein and Noam Chomsky started supporting this position. The defeat of the Jewish state was so close they could taste it. And when the Iranians breached all norms of international law, by installing terrorist puppet regimes in Lebanon - the Hezbollah, and in Gaza -Hamas, the Palestinians and the Europeans lost all inhibitions. They teamed up for Durban 1 and Durban 2 and let the Muslim states, none of whom had liberal human rights in their own countries, to take over the UN Human Rights Commission, all to make sure that the narrative of the international community was that the Jews are the racists and not the Muslims, even though Muslims live in peace in Jewish Israel, and no Jews live in peace in Muslim states. So that is the background to the Rotberg Peace Plan. And that is why the Rotberg Peace Plan calls for 1. The resettlement of the Palestinians in Western Europe - because Europeans have clearly shown over the last few centuries, that they prefer Muslims as neighbours to Jews as neighbours. 2. The payment for the resettlement of the Palestinians to be made by Arab countries, in the same proportion as the number of Jews they expelled (and confiscated property) who then were resettled in Israel. 3. The payment for the resettlement of the remaining European Jews should be for the account of the European countries....because that is the least they can do.