"Except for the extermination of the Tasmanians, modern history recognizes no case in which the virtually complete supplanting of the indigenous population of a country by an alien stock has been achieved in as little as two generations. Yet this, in fact, is what has been attempted in Palestine since the beginning of the Twentieth century. Herein lies the nub of the Middle East – at once its greatest tragedy and its most perplexing but inescapable problem."
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The Demographic Transformation of Palestine (1971)
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Janet Abu-Lughod
Janet Abu-Lughod (August 3, 1928 – December 14, 2013) was an American sociologist.
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