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When Jews began rebuilding Palestine, it was a dusty dried up destitute "backwater" of the Middle East - according to Mark Twain's writings from 1869. At that time there was not yet in existence one Arab country, rather the land was divided into regions and ruled, as it had always been, by he that held the bloodiest "Shabaria" - the sheathed butcher knife that can still be seen on the belts of Arabs to this day.
At that time, and right up until after the middle of the 20th century anyone speaking of a Palestinian, was speaking of a Jew - after 1948 those same Jews became known as Israelis, after they had discarded the name the Romans had given their country 2000 years before.
During the decades that followed 1948 the Arabs took on the name Palestinian having this name, for the first time in history representing - however falsely - Arabs.

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