A Palestinian return to nowhere.(refugees)

The drumbeat of publicity that began last year about a "right of return" by Palestinian refugees to Israel recalls an experience of a friend whose father fled Nazi Germany. On a summer afternoon in 1982, Marie Abrams stood with her father outside his childhood home in Merchingen, a dot of a village in southwest Germany. He had not seen the house since the 1930s when his family managed to escape Hitler. Now, more than four decades later, his American-born daughter and grandchildren returned with him to see where he grew up. Could they go inside? he asked the woman of the house who