"#Jerusalem was an #Arab city for over a thousand years. In 1948, #Palestinians in Jerusalem were subjected to a total and complete ethnic #cleansing, and not a single Palestinian was allowed to remain in the city. Jerusalem then became the capital city of the state of #Israel 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…