Posted on 02/15/2002 6:37:49 AM PST by Irishmonk
Edited on 04/29/2004 2:00:07 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The abrupt birth of Israel led to mass displacement of the Arab population in the area. Many Arabs were forced into refugee camps in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Jordan. To this day, both Arabs and Jews claim the area known as Israel which includes the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, which borders Jordan, and Jerusalem as their rightful homeland....
(Excerpt) Read more at fyi.cnn.com ...
http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/interactive/0108/mideast/index.html
Gee, why doesn't CNN go all the way and refer to it as "the Zionist entity"?
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