" In 1919, he became president of the Norwegian Union for the
League of Nations and at the Peace Conference in Paris was an
influential lobbyist for the adoption of the League Covenant and for
recognition of the rights of small nations. From 1920 until his death
he was a delegate to the League from Norway.

In June, 1921, the Council of the League appointed Nansen its first
High Commissioner for Refugees. Stateless refugees recieved a "
Nansen Passport " , a document of identification which was
eventually recognized by fifty-two governments. In the nine-year
life of this Office, Nansen ministered to hundreds of thousands of
refugees – Russian,Turkish, Armenian, Assyrian, Assyro-Chaldean -
utilizing the methods that were to become classic: custodial
care, repatriation, rehabilitation, resettlement, emigration,
integration.

In 1922 at the request of the Greek government and with the
approval of the League of Nations, Nansen tried to solve the
problem of the Greek refugees who poured into their native land
from their homes in Asia Minor after the Greek army had been
defeated by the Turks. Nansen arranged an exchange of about
1,250,000 Greeks living on Turkish soil for about 500,000 Turks
living in Greece, with appropriate indemnification and provisions
for giving them the opportunity for a new start in life."

IN 1922 FRIDTJOF NANSEN WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE .

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1922/nansen-
bio.html

" On the question of loyalty, let me give you an example. We all know
from the history books of the exchange of Turks and Greeks, which
took place after World War I when, after the war ended, there was a
further war between Greece and Turkey, at the end of which, the Greek
and Turkish governments agreed on an exchange of populations. And as
it appears in the history books, the Greek minority in Turkey was
sent to Greece; the Turkish minority in Greece was sent to Turkey.
That's what it says in the history books. But if you look at the
treaty in which this agreement was incorporated, it says something
different. The parties to be exchanged are defined as Turkish
subjects of the Greek Orthodox faith and Greek subjects of the Muslim
faith. And if you look more closely at who the people actually were,
they were, to a very large extent, Turkish-speaking Orthodox
Christians from Turkey and Greek-speaking Muslims from Greece. This
was not an exchange of two ethnic minorities. It was a deportation of
two religious minorities." Prof. Bernard Lewis

http://pewforum.org/events/index.php?EventID=107

When he says "the Palestinian people are prisoners of Islamic forces who have a vested interest in their misery," he really is pointing out the fanaticism and hatred in Islam that knows no bounds.

These people are ready and more than willing to sacrifice their own simply to destroy non-Moslems. This is blind hatred pure and simple and a fanaticism devoid of any humanistic character.

There is no dealing with such people! Reason, logic, empathy simply does not exist within them. Their perfidy, treachery and cruelty knows no bounds. All civilized human characteristics are subordinated to a perverted megalomaniacal goal.

The sooner the civilized world recognizes this reality -the better!

That Palestinians either know of or sense this and do nothing to cast off their chains, and everything that is expected of them as pawns, is sad.