The argument that Palestinians are recent immigrants to their own land was constructed specifically to make dispossession disappear.
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The argument that Palestinians are recent immigrants to their own land was constructed specifically to make dispossession disappear.
If they just got there, they have no roots.
If they have no roots, they have no claim.
If they have no claim, 1948 was not dispossession.
If 1948 was not dispossession, there are no refugees. If there are no refugees, there is nothing to resolve.
The argument is not history.
It is the legal and moral case for the Nakba, assembled backwards from the conclusion it needs to reach.
Historians, including Israeli ones, have examined the Ottoman census records, the land registries, the village surveys conducted by the British Mandate.
The population was there.
It was majority Arab.
For centuries.
No debunked 1984 book changes the Ottoman land registry.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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