"It is important to ask the question not only whether it is possible to realize the right of return in practice, but based on what principles do we accept or reject the right of return ... I think the Palestinian leader to give up the right of return was yet to be born, nor will they ever." Ilan Pappe on the right of return and the practice of its realization, the perception of the issue among the Palestinian public facing the Israeli public and the attitude of the authorities.