Palestinians talk about "al-Naksa",the "Setback" or "Catastrophe" of 1967, and the "Disaster" of 1947, as the seminal moments that led to the Palestinian Diaspora, but the truth is that the real catastrophe happened much earlier, when the Great Arab Revolt began, today in 1916. What they lost then, and will never recover, was fully 60% of traditional Falastina - the land that is now misnomered as the Hashemite Republic of Jordan (click here for the full details)
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