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Mosby

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3. Your understanding of the history surrounding the issue is way off.
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 03:21 PM
Mar 2020

Jews have been living in and around israel for more than 3200 years, it's their ancestral homeland, not someplace they were dumped by european countries. By the time the arab armies arrived and conquered the entire region, the Jewish people had been living there for more than 1800 years.

I don't really expect you to change your thinking in a blink of an eye but just consider how different the history of the conflict is presented in the journal article linked below compared to your summary in the op.

https://jcpa.org/article/deconstructing-the-three-stages-of-the-nakba-myth/

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