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" was an city for over a thousand years. In 1948, in Jerusalem were subjected to a total and complete ethnic , and not a single Palestinian was allowed to remain in the city. Jerusalem then became the capital city of the state of and the street names, which used to catalog the long and magnificent Arab history of the city, were changed."

@tuttifruttihat neither Israel nor Palestine existed before 1948 as sovereign entities. Neither Jews nor Palestinians saw themselves as “people” belonging to a land before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during the 1st world war. The real question is why refugees from Eastern and Western Europe were considered a “people” by the post colonial regimes of the time, but not the Palestinians, who actually lived and formed a majority in Palestine even after 1948…

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