Article 11 of UN resolution 194 of 14 December 1948 provides for the right of return of Palestine Refugees. United Nations General Assembly Resolution 273 admitted Israel to the United Nations on 11 May 11 1949 after Israel consented to implement UN resolutions including resolutions 194 and 181.

Article 11 states:

"Resolves that the refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors 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 and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible. Instructs the Conciliation Commission to facilitate the repatriation, resettlement and economic and social rehabilitation of the refugees and the payment of compensation, and to maintain close relations with the Director of the United Nations Relief for Palestine Refugees and, through him, with the appropriate organs and agencies of the United Nations".

I wonder if Americans will now once again start refering to chips as "french fries" instead of "freedom fries".

With respect to peaceful use of nuclear energy without involving large quantities of nuclear waste that has a half-life of thousands of years, the elephant in the room continues to be nuclear power using the thorium cycle rather than the uranium cycle. Thorium is plentiful and used as fuel in a liquid fluoride thorium reactor generates less than one percent long term nuclear waste that a comparable uranium reactor generates.

Furthermore, it is impossible to breed plutonium in a thorium reactor. Therefore it cannot be used to make fuel for nuclear weapons as a by-product. Perhaps that is why no one likes to mention the thorium reactor nuclear power option.

Thank you, Justin. This coup and the support therefor has nothing to do with nonsense about prevention of some democratically elected dictatorship. That is nothing more than a pretext for the likes of the Honduran oligarchy and US business interests to maintain its exploitation of the country's wealth, not the least of which is cheap labour for export. Then, too there is the support of radical US political factions, including fascist religous groups. For instance, "MIGApartners", headed by "Prophet Jaime Chávez", had General Romeo Vásquez, leader of the coup, speak to his "Kingdom Government in Miami" this past weekend. See http://www.jaimechavez.org/ . Under the circumstances, why is the US State Department allowing this thug to enter the US to speak to such groups? I suspect such groups are another avenue of financial support for the coup that the US implicitly endorses.