In the late Ottoman period (1880–1914), before large-scale Zionist immigration under British rule, Palestinian Arabs made up roughly 92% of the population of the land

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“Note: In the late Ottoman period (1880–1914), before large-scale Zionist immigration under British rule, Palestinian Arabs made up roughly 92% of the population of the land. Even by 1947, after decades of immigration, Arabs were still about 67% of the population, Jews 33%. Palestinians also owned around 90% of the land. Yet the UN Partition Plan awarded the Jewish state 56% of the territory. Nearly half of the people living inside the proposed “Jewish state” were Palestinian Arabs. Against that reality, the Palestinian acceptance of a state on just 22% of their country was not the absence of compromise — it was the largest concession made by either side.”

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Harvard professor Tarek Masoud suggests an “asymmetry” in Israeli–Palestinian negotiations where Israeli leaders arrive at U.S.-brokered talks “giving up” land that they claim historically — with Ehud Olmert saying he “felt like I was fainting” when offering parts of East

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