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5. OK, I read the article.

It was pretty in-depth. I only grasped a few things.

- "oh, the poor Palestinians!" is something that evolved around 1967 (aggressors become victims)
- the area where the Palestinians now are has been fought over and appropriated by different people for centuries.
- the Jews who arrived in the 1940's were not the first migration of Jews into the land around Jerusalem. And some Jews were always there.
- the Arab states in the Middle East did a "Jewish purge" in the beginning of the 20th century
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Now, with all of that said, I think it is still accurate that Israel has come up with some laws that are unfavorable to Palestinians, there is prejudice against Palestinians in Israel, there is discrimination in the workforce against Palestinians, there is some physical segregation.

So, I will never again suggest that the history of that region can be described in a single, simple paragraph of "bad Israeli's displaced poor Palestinians", but it does not justify some of the laws and behaviors going on today.