I’ve read that many of the displaced left before Israel declared statehood. That sounds like they simply didn’t want to be subject to an Israeli government. And there is a significant number of Arab Muslim Israelis who weren’t dispossessed and live in peace.
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Both true.Its a huge mixed bag. Lots of Palestinians also kept out of the “refugee” camps entirely and integrated into the population of other Arab lands, or all over the world, including the US. A disproportionate share of these other Palestinians were Christian or secular. I worked with at least five of these gentlemen, parents from what’s now Haifa, at an engineering firm I was with at one time.