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That map acts like there were Palestinians living all over "Palestinian Land" marked green. Where are all the Arab cities and infrastructure (let alone archeological evidence) to make that claim?
Too bad the Muslim fanatics refused the original UN partition plan and decided to start (and lose) a bunch of wars of extermination and lost more land as a result.
JERUSALEM (AP) — In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation.
Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” An estimated 700,000 Palestinians, a majority of the prewar population, fled or were expelled from what is now Israel in the months before and during the war, in which Jewish fighters fended off an attack by several Arab states.
The Palestinians packed their belongings, piling into cars, trucks and donkey carts. Many locked their doors and took their keys with them, expecting to return when the war ended.
Seventy-five years later, they have not been allowed back. Emptied towns were renamed, villages were demolished, homes reclaimed by forests in Israeli nature reserves.
Israel refused to allow the Palestinians to return, because it would threaten the Jewish majority within the country’s borders. So the refugees and their descendants, who now number nearly 6 million, settled in camps in the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan. Those camps eventually grew into built-up neighborhoods.
In Gaza, the vast majority of the population are Palestinian refugees, many of whose relatives fled from the same areas that Hamas attacked last weekend.
The Palestinians insist they have the right to return, something Israel still adamantly rejects. Their fate was among the thorniest issues in the peace process, which ground to a halt more than a decade ago.
Where are all the Arab cities and infrastructure (let alone archeological evidence) to make that claim?
> Israel actually removed Palestinians from these white colored areas? How did they remove them? They sent letters with deadlines of when they had to move or...? Or did Israel just claim unimproved vacant land? Or?
Assuming this is a sincere question motivated by a genuine interest in understanding history, this link might help.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba
If not for the Holocaust, the modern day nation of Israel probably would not have been created. The diaspora wanted to return to their ancestral homeland irrespective of who was already living there. So they kicked the Palestinians to the curb.
Why did the Jews abandon the area in the first place?
Here's a very small list of cities that were populated by Palestinian Arabs (most of them were majority arabic before 1948). Some of them are still mainly Arab, but many of them have been "depopulated" of their original inhabitants:
Jerusalem, Haifa, Hebron, Jenin, Jericho, an-Nāṣira (Nazareth), Tel es Sebah (renamed to Be'er Sheva), Nablus, Ramalla, Aqaba/Eilat, Al Majdal (renamed Ashkelon), Ishdud (renamed Ashdod), Jaffa (renamed Yafo, now part of Tel-Aviv Yafo metropolis), Wadi al-Faliq (destroyed in 1948, later established as Netanya)...
They had a dispute with the Roman occupiers and those that weren't killed were given the boot. Thus begins Rabbinic Judaism.
This is exactly why I asked the questions. The Palestinians were Bedouins, correct? Not that that really matters imo. If their Bedouin culture/society(?) owned those lands, than they owned those lands? Acutally, is Israel taking over Palestine(?) any different than the current population of Australia pushing out the Aborigines? Ok, so thinking out loud here, this is no different that what happened to the American Indians EXCEPT we are at a different time in history?
Palestinians are NOT Bedouins; they loathe Bedouins. Palestinians are Bosniaks, Turkmen, and other groups brought into Palestine in an attempt to halt the depopulation of the region by the Ottoman Turks.
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