Credit Andy Singer 2024

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    were descended from people who voluntarily left the area generations ago

    There have been forced deportations from that area for millenia. They’re talked about in the Bible and the Romans did it.

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      Weird then how the majority of Palestinians are a genetically unbroken set of lineages from before the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. Some deportations from very specific areas happened, like from Jerusalem to the West Bank during Roman rule.

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        I’m not sure the point you’re trying to make…I was just pointing out that “voluntarily leaving what is now Israel” is wildly misleading and wrong