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    • JoYo@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      and they were replaced by more Arabs, follow along:

      Arabs can be both a victim and a perpetrator amongst themselves.

      crazy right?

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        2 months ago

        Or and this is nuts, but the Ottoman Empire was building up the area and urbanization was happening. Nobody got replaced, it was just more people moving in.

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          2 months ago

          those are synonyms, or are we all pretending gentrification doesn’t exist again?

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                2 months ago

                No. Not exactly. The Israelis have spent decades pushing Palestinians out. They aren’t just moving in.

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                  2 months ago

                  i’m not arguing against that, I just don’t buy that Palestinians are natives. Ottomans in the region were subject to mass migration following the British mandate.