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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Whilst this is true it has nothing to do with the Palestinians
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It kind of does though. During the Ottoman era, Arabs, mainly from Jordan and at the behest of Jordanian leaders, were forcefully located to "Palestine" to make the area more Muslim, and displaced many of the Jews and Hellenic Christians that lived in the region. The Palestinian nationality didn't exist until the 1800s and was created by the Ottomans. They did a similar thing in the Balkans by creating a Bosniak nationality.
That is not to say that Arabs didn't live in Palestine before then (as did Jews and other groups), but there was a mass migration not that dissimilar to the Zionist movement that also began in the 1800s. The land grabs at the time were mutual.