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Originally Posted by _Q_
It's overly simplistic to assume that the many different ethnicities that lived in the Middle East have all vanished and a unified "Arab" rule now occupies all 22 countries.
That's kind of the crux of the whole Palestine/Israel debate and for some reason is extremely difficult for Westerners to understand.
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In what way is it overly simplistic? The genocides of the Kurds, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, etc.. That formerly inhabited the area and their replacement by Arabs is well documented. And happened on a massive scale.
Ironically it was the cleansing of Jewish populations from these newly formed Arab empires that allowed for Israel to exist. Without the massive influx of Asiatic Jews into Israel, it simply wouldn't exist anymore.