New NRP leader Eitam seeks Palestinian expulsion

JERUSALEM - Tugging his beard or adjusting his skull cap, Effie Eitam, an ultranationalist slated to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Cabinet, speaks unabashedly of his controversial dream: One day the more than three million Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip will move to Jordan.

Palestinians say Eitam's dream is just that - a fantasy with no basis in reality. The Palestinians see the West Bank and Gaza as their future state, and say millions of additional Palestinians now in exile have their own dream of returning to the region.
Any attempt to drive the Palestinians out would surely draw a fierce response from the Palestinians as well as international condemnation.