Jaffa was a port town controlled by Arabs when Jews returning to Israel started settling in the area around the turn of the 20th century.
The Arabs made it known that while they would do business with the Jews through the port they controlled, Jews were not welcome to live in Jaffa in any serious numbers.
So the Jews built their own homesteads in the sandy hills above Jaffa.
After about twenty years these homes were numerous enough to become a full-fledged town in its own right: Tel Aviv, established in 1909, was that town.
Guess Gramps really is senile
And now Jaffa is a suburb.
Well, Assud is half-right. Before 1967, the term “Palestinian” meant Jews, not Arabs. The Jerusalem Post was called “The Palestine Post” until 1950. And I know a rabbi in Hebron whose 1937 birth certificate identifies him as a “Palestinian.”