With Apologies to Tom Petty, For Certain

Another damning piece of evidence against the time immemorial theory of ancient "Palestinians" is the fact that the U.N. had to radically alter its definition of refugee to include even individuals who had migrated there as recently as two years prior (to the 1948 war). A long-standing/indigenous population obviously wouldn't have needed such an alteration and it clearly underscores the fact that much of the increase in the Arab population was probably due to a) the Turkish resettlement policy of the late 19th Century, b) the upturn in the area's economy due to Jewish investment, and c) the lax immigration policy that the Brits had instituted for Arabs post World War One (which was much more lenient than the one for Jews).................................................................................And even amongst this small longer-standing Arab population, a significant majority of those were debt-ridden peasants, nomads, and Bedouins whose stock in life was not reduced one iota because of the presence of Jews. That, and the on-site Arabs (as opposed to all of those absentee landlords still living in Cairo, Damascus, and Beirut) and who did sell their land to the Jews did so largely a) out of a desire to migrate to the coastal towns and invest in the citrus industry and b) because they wanted to get away from the violent Arab rebels who were terrorizing the countryside, NOT BECAUSE THE BIG, BAD JEWS FORCED THEM TO.