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Who Were the 1948 Arab Refugees?

by Yoram Ettinger, June 6, 2016 3:50 am Contrary to conventional ā€œwisdom,ā€ most Arabs in British Mandate Palestine ā€”Ā and most of theĀ 320,000 1948 Arab refugeesĀ ā€” were migrant workers and descendants of the 1831-1947 Muslim immigrantsĀ from Egypt, the Sudan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, North Africa, Bosnia, India, Afghanistan, etc. Britain enticed Arab…