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D Henkin's avatar

You don't go far back enough. Arabs have always been going in and out of the area, but starting in 1831, large numbers of Arabs began permanent relocation. For example, after Egypt’s conquest of Palestine in 1831, 6,000 Egyptian peasants moved to Palestine with their families. Thousands more moved in during the rest of the century, to the point that, by 1900 at least 85 - 90 % of the non-Beduin Muslim residents were immigrants or descendants of immigrants. The German Philip Baldensperger, observed in 1913 that “we find entire villages of Egyptians all along the plains of the Philistines, from the river of Egypt [i.e., the Nile]* to Jaffa, – descendants of those of 1831, and who continue unmixed.” Other ethnologists, seeking to study the native population, had many of the same complaints. During WWI and up until 1847, waves of Arab immigration continued unchecked.

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Omer Golan Joel's avatar

Lebanon is an apartheid state against Palestinians, who are second-class citizens monstrously discriminated against by the Lebanese government. This, of course, is never mentioned by Western "pro-Palestinian" activists, whose only goals are to slander Jews and justify the murder of Jews.

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