Palestinian Refugees and Israel Today

March 21, 2018

Who, exactly, is a Palestinian refugee? And why – after 70 years – is this matter still a problem for Israel today? The answers will surprise you.

Jewish and Palestinian refugees

In 1948, the United Nations granted a portion of Israel’s historical homeland for the re-establishment of a Jewish nation. Immediately, nearby Arab nations expelled all Jewish people and collaborated to attack the new nation of Israel.

Arab countries stripped some 800,000 Jewish people of their citizenship, confiscated their property and forced them to leave Jewish communities that predated Arab occupation in the Middle East. The evicted Jewish people fled to Israel, the United States and other countries that absorbed them as citizens.

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