Is the right of return a deal-breaker for two states?

In the 1995 Oslo II Interim Agreement, Israel and the PLO listed refugees as one of seven items that permanent status negotiations “shall cover,” beside Jerusalem, settlements, security arrangements and borders, and the signed text ranks none of them above another. The underlying question is whether return is a fundamental obstacle that can sink a settlement on its own, or one knot among several. The record on the claim is long: the United Nations General Assembly called the Palestinian right to return “inalienable” in 1974, by 89 votes to 8. Israel’s enacted entry laws are written around Jewish status and citizenship, and in August 2026 58% of Palestinians surveyed by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research said two states were no longer practical because of settlement expansion.

Key Findings

• Israel and the PLO listed refugees as one of seven items for permanent status talks in Article XXXI(5) of the Oslo II Interim Agreement, signed on 28 September 1995, and the clause sets no order of priority among them (Israel and the PLO, 1995).
• The United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3236, which calls the Palestinian right to return “inalienable,” by a recorded vote of 89 to 8 with 37 abstentions on 22 November 1974 (United Nations General Assembly, 1948 to 1975).
• The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated about 711,000 “refugees from Israel-controlled territory” on 7 September 1949 and published the estimate in its 1950 report (United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1950).
• Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counted 7.790 million Jews and Others among 10.244 million residents as of 22 April 2026. This is its own reported total and is preliminary (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2026).
• In fieldwork from 5 to 8 August 2026, 58% of 1,270 West Bank and Gaza respondents said the two-state solution “is no longer practical because of settlement expansion,” against 36% who said it remains practical (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2026).

Is return the only issue left blocking a two-state agreement?

In the parties’ own signed instrument, refugees are one item among seven. Article XXXI(5) of the Oslo II Interim Agreement, signed by Israel and the PLO on 28 September 1995, places refugees beside Jerusalem, settlements, security arrangements, borders, relations with neighbors and “other issues of common interest” as subjects permanent status negotiations “shall cover.” The clause attaches no order of priority to any of them (Israel and the PLO, 1995).

The clause reads in full: “Permanent status negotiations will commence as soon as possible, but not later than May 4, 1996, between the Parties. It is understood that these negotiations shall cover remaining issues, including: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, security arrangements, borders, relations and cooperation with other neighbors, and other issues of common interest.” The word “including” leaves the list open. Refugees appear second, with no marker of weight. The 4 May 1996 date is the commitment the text made in 1995. The instrument records the schedule, not what followed it.

The Agreement also treats refugees as a reserved file. Article XVII(1) removes from the Palestinian Council’s jurisdiction “Jerusalem, settlements, specified military locations, Palestinian refugees, borders, foreign relations and Israelis.” The interim arrangements therefore set refugees aside together with most of the subjects that Article XXXI(5) sends to permanent status talks.

Two further clauses frame how each side entered those talks. Article XXXI(6) provides that neither Party “shall be deemed, by virtue of having entered into this Agreement, to have renounced or waived any of its existing rights, claims or positions.” Article XXXI(7) binds both sides in identical terms: “Neither side shall initiate or take any step that will change the status of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip pending the outcome of the permanent status negotiations.” Read together, the text preserves the Palestinian claim to return and Israel’s position on it alike, and settles neither.

The English text quoted here was published by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is a party to the Agreement. The instrument itself is bilateral, between Israel and the PLO. It was witnessed by the United States, the Russian Federation, Egypt, Jordan, Norway and the European Union.

Who has asserted a right of return, and since when?

The United Nations General Assembly first asserted it on 11 December 1948. Its strongest wording came on 22 November 1974, when Resolution 3236 called the Palestinian right to return “inalienable.” The resolution was adopted by 89 votes to 8, with 37 abstentions, in a roll call recorded in the verbatim record of the Assembly’s 2296th plenary meeting (United Nations General Assembly, 1948 to 1975).

The 1948 text is conditional in its own words. Resolution 194 (III), paragraph 11, resolves that refugees “wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return.” The paragraph names a choice, a condition of peaceful coexistence and a timing qualifier. It also pairs return with compensation in the same sentence.

The 1974 text drops those qualifiers. Paragraph 2 of Resolution 3236 “Reaffirms also the inalienable right of the Palestinians to return to their homes and property from which they have been displaced and uprooted, and calls for their return.” On the Assembly’s own record, the premise is accurate: a right of return has been asserted in its resolutions for more than seven decades, in categorical terms since 1974.

The vote has a denominator. The 89 votes in favor are about two thirds of the 134 delegations that recorded a position, not of the Assembly’s full membership. At the same meeting the Assembly adopted Resolution 3237, inviting the PLO to participate as an observer, by a different and wider margin: 95 to 17, with 19 abstentions. The two tallies answer different questions and are not combined.

Both texts are General Assembly resolutions. Neither is a treaty, and neither carries the signatures of Israel and the PLO the way Oslo II does.

What do Israel’s own laws say about who may enter?

The Knesset’s Law of Return was passed on 5 July 1950 and opens with one sentence: “Every Jew has the right to come to this country as an oleh.” In the English text published by the Knesset, a translator’s note defines oleh as “a Jew immigrating, into Israel” (Knesset, 1950, amended 1970). That text is where Israel’s position on entry is written into statute.

The 1970 amendment does two separate things. Section 4B defines the term for the Law’s own purposes: “‘Jew’ means a person who was born of a Jewish mother or has become converted to Judaism and who is not a member of another religion.” Section 4A extends the same rights to “a child and a grandchild of a Jew, the spouse of a Jew, the spouse of a child of a Jew and the spouse of a grandchild of a Jew.” It excludes “a person who has been a Jew and has voluntarily changed his religion.” Section 4B narrows eligibility by definition, while section 4A widens it by family tie. Quoting either section alone misstates the amendment.

The constitutional text frames entry by citizenship. Section 6 of Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty, enacted in 1992, provides: “(a) Every person is free to exit Israel. (b) Every Israeli citizen who is abroad is entitled to enter Israel” (Knesset, 1992). The Knesset labels this English version an “unofficial English translation” that includes amendments adopted through 1 May 2022, and it directs readers to the Hebrew for the operative law. The right to leave belongs to every person; the right to enter belongs to citizens.

Neither text names refugees. The Law of Return’s categories are Jewish status and family relationship to a Jew. The Basic Law’s entry category is Israeli citizenship. The Law of Return pages the Knesset hosts are scans from the English series Laws of the State of Israel. Unlike the Basic Law PDF, they are marked neither official nor unofficial. The 1950 page is the text as originally enacted, before later amendments.

How many refugees were counted when return was first claimed?

The United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated approximately 711,000 “refugees from Israel-controlled territory.” Its Technical Committee on Refugees produced the figure on 7 September 1949, and the Commission published it in its 1950 General Progress Report, which covers the period to 23 October 1950. It is the earliest official count tied to the period of Resolution 194 (United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1950).

The figure is an estimate, not an enumeration. The Committee described its numbers as only “as accurate as circumstances permit.” It considered a census and concluded that one was not advisable, in part because an estimated 500,000 residents of the former Mandatory area were apparently self-supporting, and a census risked attracting new claims of refugee status. The relief rolls carried more names than 711,000. The Committee attributed the difference to duplicated ration cards, to people displaced from areas other than Israel-held ones, and to people who were destitute without having been displaced.

The estimate covers refugees from Israel-controlled territory, so it excludes people displaced within Israel. Its wording names a territory of origin, not a reason for leaving.

The count was disputed when it was made. At a workshop held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law in December 2016, published as proceedings in 2018, a rapporteur summarized Benny Morris as saying that “Israel maintained at the time that the figure was 500,000, while Arab countries claimed it was nearer 900,000 or one million.” Morris was also summarized as saying the United Nations later concluded that “the real figure was just over 700,000” (Israel Law Review, 2018). In the same session, Mahmoud Yazbak was summarized as stating that about 400 Palestinian towns and villages were destroyed in “the Zionist and Israeli military operations,” resulting in “the expulsion and flight” of about 80% of the residents of the regions on which Israel was established. Both are rapporteur summaries of each speaker, not peer-reviewed findings, and the two speakers present opposed accounts of 1948.

Present-day registration totals are kept by UNRWA on its own definitions, which include descendants. Those totals measure registration, which is a different object from the Commission’s 1949 estimate of a population.

How large is the majority the demographic objection protects?

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counted 7.790 million Jews and Others among 10.244 million residents on the eve of Independence Day 2026, or 76% of the population. This is its own reported total, preliminary and up to date for 22 April 2026 (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2026). An objection to return framed around preserving a Jewish majority is, in measurable terms, an objection about the size of this group relative to the rest.

The rest of the base is two further groups. In the same release, the Bureau counted 2.157 million Arabs (21.1%) and 296,000 foreigners (2.9%), with the foreigner figure relating to the end of 2025. The three groups sum to the 10.244 million total. The first category is broader than Jews alone. In the Bureau’s definition, “Others” covers non-Arab Christians, members of other religions and people registered as not classified by religion.

The scope of the count matters for any comparison. The Bureau counts East Jerusalem residents and West Bank settlers inside Israel’s total, which is a scope choice distinct from the international convention (Israel Central Bureau of Statistics, 2025). The Bureau’s September 2025 release gave about 10.148 million residents: roughly 7.758 million Jews and Others, 2.130 million Arabs and about 260,000 foreign residents. Since 2023 the estimates have included foreigners, so the series is not continuous with earlier years.

The 2026 release also records how the total moves. Over the 11.75 months to 22 April 2026, the population grew by 146,000 (1.4%), of which the Israeli population accounted for 110,000 (1.1%). The release records about 177,000 births and about 21,000 immigrants in that period, and the Bureau notes that the total change does not equal the sum of its components. At the State’s establishment in 1948, the Bureau’s count was 806,000.

No return scenario is modeled on these figures here. How a large return would change them is set out in a reading of the Bureau’s counts and the one published scenario.

Was compensation ever costed as an alternative to return?

Yes. The Conciliation Commission’s Refugee Office valued the abandoned land “which has passed to Jewish hands” at £P100 million in September 1951, across an estimated 16,324 square kilometers. This is the Commission’s own estimate, reported in its 1961 historical survey of the compensation question (United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1961). Resolution 194 had written compensation into the same sentence as return, for “those choosing not to return.”

The exact figures behind the rounded total are rural land at £P69,525,144, urban land at £P21,608,640 and Jerusalem land at £P9,250,000. Together these give £P100,383,784, which the Office rounded to £P100 million. Of the 16,324 square kilometers, 4,574 were cultivable. The Office wrote that its estimates “must inevitably be regarded as approximate ones.” The area is land the Office counted as abandoned. It is not land processed through Israel’s absentee-property system, whose records the Office declined to use.

A separate exercise measured what refugees said they had owned. In the Commission’s 1951 sampling survey, the Secretariat worked from questionnaires that UNRWA had issued to 84,000 heads of refugee families in Jordan, about 540,000 people. Of those families, 55,400 (66%) claimed buildings, land or both, and the claims totaled 3,508,540 dunums. The remaining 28,600 (34%) claimed no property (United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1951). The survey covers Jordan only. The claims were stated on a relief agency’s form and sampled afterwards, not filed with the Commission, and the survey itself notes that “the claims on which the survey is based were unchecked and not documented.”

The 1961 survey also records one sum that changed hands. Release of Arab refugee bank accounts blocked in Israel began in the summer of 1953 through the Palestine branches of Barclay’s Bank and the Ottoman Bank, and “By 31 August 1956 a total of £2,633,175 of the accounts had been released.” That is a released balance on bank accounts. It is not compensation for property, and it is not offset against the land valuation.

Would either public accept a limited refugee clause in a deal?

In December 2022, 34% of Israeli Jews supported “the general concept of the two-state solution before testing the details of the plan.” The finding comes from the Palestine/Israel Pulse, a joint poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, fielded from 1 to 13 December 2022 and published in January 2023 (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, 2023).

On the same item, 33% of Palestinians were in support. Opposition stood at 66% of Palestinians and 53% of Israeli Jews. In the publishers’ words, two years earlier “43% of the Palestinians and 42% of Israeli Jews supported this solution.” They described the 2022 reading as “the lowest level of support for this concept” since the series began in June 2016.

Neither figure isolates a refugee clause. Both were taken before respondents were shown any detail of the plan, so they measure support for the concept. Whether a limited refugee provision raises or lowers that support cannot be read from them.

The two samples differ in design. The 1,270 Palestinians were interviewed face to face from 1 to 4 December 2022 in 127 randomly selected locations in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, with a margin of error of 3%. The 900 Israelis were interviewed online from 6 to 13 December 2022. That sample was a quota design of 500 Jews inside Israel, 200 West Bank settlers and 200 Israeli Arabs, reweighted to their true proportions, with a whole-sample margin of error of 3.34%. The subsamples of 200 carry wider bounds, which the report does not publish. The publishers offer no adjustment for the difference in interview mode.

The publishers suggest a reason for the decline, framed as speculation: it “might be explained by the significant rise in armed clashes between Palestinians and Israelis in 2022 and the electoral success of extreme right-wing forces in Israel.” All of this fieldwork predates October 2023. The Pulse frame includes East Jerusalem, so it is not combined with the Center’s quarterly Palestinian series.

What reason do Palestinians give for doubting two states?

In the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research’s Poll 97, 58% of respondents said the two-state solution “is no longer practical because of settlement expansion,” against 36% who said it remains practical.

The poll was fielded from 5 to 8 August 2026 among 1,270 respondents in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with a margin of error of 3.5% (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, 2026).

The wording matters. The item itself names settlement expansion as the reason, so the 58% records agreement with a stated cause. It is not an open-ended answer about why two states seem unworkable. The share was 56% ten months earlier. The 58% and 36% sum to 94%, which leaves a non-response residual.

Two other items in the same poll measure different things. On a bare support-or-oppose question with no detail supplied, 44% supported the two-state solution and 50% opposed it. On a forced choice among three named options, 56% preferred “the two-state solution based on the 1967 borders,” 14% a confederation and 10% a single state with equal rights, while 20% did not know or declined to answer. The 12-point gap between 44% and 56% reflects the difference in question form, not a change in opinion. Separately, 33% supported abandoning the two-state solution for a single state, against 27% ten months earlier. In addition, 64% rated the chances of a Palestinian state within five years as low or nonexistent.

The frame has limits. It excludes East Jerusalem, so it is a different population from the joint poll’s Palestinian sample, and the two are not combined into one trend. The 3.5% margin applies to the whole sample, and the regional splits carry wider bounds. Gaza interviewing took place in areas without an Israeli military presence, with interviews in shelters standing in for residents of areas under Israeli military control. The poll page carries a stale subheading dated September 2025; its methodology paragraph dates the fieldwork to August 2026.

Does a surviving right oblige Israel to admit returnees?

Victor Tadros, Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick, argued in a 2017 peer-reviewed article in Politics, Philosophy & Economics that Palestinians hold a right to return to the territory governed by Israel. He also argued that the current generation retains a significant interest in return, and that its rights do not diminish in proportion as that interest diminishes (Tadros, 2017).

The same article stops short of the second step. Its published abstract states: “However, it does not defend the duty on Israel to permit return. Whether there is such a duty depends on whether the economic, social and security costs override that right.” Tadros sets the right against the interests of Jewish Israelis in exclusion, their rights of self-determination, and the economic, social and security costs of return. The figures available here come from the abstract only, because the full text is paywalled.

The article is moral philosophy, not a reading of law. It is not cited here for what any treaty or resolution requires. Tadros also separates two routes to an intergenerational right. The 2017 article grounds it in a political struggle sustained across generations. A later article, “Inheriting the Right of Return,” grounds it in the transmission of occupancy rights from parents to children (Tadros, 2020).

The distinction between holding a right and binding a particular state to admit maps onto the instruments quoted above. Resolution 194 speaks of refugees who wish to return being “permitted to do so,” and it provides compensation for those who choose not to. Resolution 3236 calls the right “inalienable” and “calls for their return.” Israel’s Basic Law grants a right of entry to “Every Israeli citizen who is abroad,” and its Law of Return grants one to “Every Jew.” Oslo II preserves each party’s “existing rights, claims or positions” without deciding between them. Tadros’s argument holds that the right persists. On his account, the duty to admit turns on a weighing of costs that the article leaves open.

Methodology and limitations

This report draws on 14 sources of five types, each labeled where it is first used.

Primary and official records. These are the Oslo II text as published by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a party to it; General Assembly resolutions 194, 3236, 3237 and 3376 and the verbatim record of the 1974 vote; the Knesset’s English texts of the Law of Return and Basic Law: Human Dignity and Liberty; three Conciliation Commission documents (1950, 1951, 1961); and two Central Bureau of Statistics releases.

The two Bureau releases are also a type of their own: official statistics published by a party to the conflict, labeled as Israel’s own counts wherever they appear.

Named survey organizations. These are the Palestine/Israel Pulse joint poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, fielded in December 2022, and the Center’s Poll 97, fielded in August 2026. The Pulse is the most recent instrument that put the same two-state question to both publics in one design. Its index lists waves for 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2023 and none after, so there is no joint reading later than December 2022 fieldwork. Neither poll includes an item that isolates support for a refugee clause. The Pulse figures measure the general concept before plan details, and the Poll 97 practicality item supplies its own stated reason.

Peer-reviewed scholarship and proceedings. Tadros (2017) is peer-reviewed moral philosophy. Its figures here are abstract-sourced because the full text is paywalled, and it counts nothing. The Israel Law Review (2018) item is a rapporteur’s summary of a 2016 workshop, not a peer-reviewed article, and each figure in it is attributed to the speaker as summarized.

Contested and limited points. The 711,000 is an estimate whose own authors called it only “as accurate as circumstances permit.” Counts stated by Israel and by Arab states in 1949 differed from it in both directions. The Commission’s £P100 million is its own 1951 valuation, and the 1951 sampling survey records unchecked claims from Jordan only. The Bureau’s totals include East Jerusalem residents and West Bank settlers. Present-day UNRWA registration totals are that agency’s own counts on its own definitions, which include descendants. They measure registration rather than a displaced population and are not used as figures here.

Conclusion

Can one grievance sink a settlement on its own, or is it one knot among several? On the record assembled here, the parties’ own signed instrument answers the structural half: Oslo II lists refugees as one of seven permanent status items in 1995 and ranks none of them above another.

The rest of the record shows why this item does not loosen easily. The General Assembly has asserted the right since 1948 and called it “inalienable” in 1974, by 89 votes to 8. Israel’s entry laws grant the right to come to “Every Jew” and the right to enter to “Every Israeli citizen,” and neither names refugees. The Commission counted about 711,000 refugees in 1949 against a majority the Bureau now puts, on Israel’s own count, at 7.790 million of 10.244 million. Resolution 194 paired return with compensation from the start, and the Commission put a price on the land at £P100 million in 1951. Yet in December 2022 only 34% of Israeli Jews and 33% of Palestinians backed two states even as a concept. In August 2026, 58% of Palestinians surveyed agreed the idea had failed because of settlement expansion, a different file.

Tadros’s distinction between a right that persists and a duty to admit that depends on a weighing of costs points to the question these figures sharpen. If every file on the 1995 list stayed open while publics on both sides moved away from the concept itself, then a settlement does not stall on any one claim. It stalls on the order in which the seven are taken up. Which file would have to close first for the others to be negotiable, and who decides the order of an unranked list?

Frequently Asked Questions

Which states voted against Resolution 3236 in 1974?

Eight delegations voted against: the United States, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Iceland, Israel, Nicaragua and Norway, according to the verbatim record of the General Assembly’s 2296th plenary meeting (United Nations General Assembly, 1948 to 1975). Another 37 delegations abstained.

Which body was created to implement the rights in Resolution 3236?

Resolution 3376, adopted on 10 November 1975, established the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, “composed of twenty Member States” (United Nations General Assembly, 1948 to 1975). It asked the Committee to recommend “a programme of implementation” and to report “no later than 1 June 1976.”

Why did the Conciliation Commission not use Israel’s absentee-property records to value land?

The Refugee Office rejected the Custodian of Absentee Property’s records because “it would be inappropriate to assess compensation entirely on the basis of information furnished by an interested party” (United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, 1961). It built the estimate from the Mandatory government’s Village Statistics 1945 and valued land as at 29 November 1947, the last date it judged land values “reasonably stable.”

How did support for two states differ between Gaza and the West Bank in 2022?

In the December 2022 Pulse fieldwork, support for the general two-state concept was 40% in the Gaza Strip and 28% in the West Bank (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, 2023). The publishers noted that this reversed the pattern in their previous surveys.

How do Israeli Arabs compare with Israeli Jews on two states?

In December 2022, 60% of Israeli Arabs supported the general two-state concept, against 34% of Israeli Jews, bringing the all-Israeli figure to 39% (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, 2023). The Israeli Arab subsample was 200 respondents, so its bound is wider than the 3.34% whole-sample margin.

How many immigrants has Israel recorded since 1948?

Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics counts over 3.5 million immigrants since the State’s establishment, about 1.68 million (47.8%) of them since 1990. It also counts about 158,000 immigrating citizens since 1970 (Central Bureau of Statistics, 2026). These are the Bureau’s own counts.

What did Israeli Jews prefer among the alternatives to two states in 2022?

The Pulse publishers reported that among Israeli Jews, “support for one unequal state under Israeli rule is higher than the two-state solution.” Across both publics as a whole, fewer respondents backed either one-state alternative than backed two states (Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and Tel Aviv University, 2023).

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