MEHD!. The Palestinian Arabs are the inhabitants of Palestine. mostly Moslems and Christians. and they have been in the last twentytwo years squeezed out of Palestine. The first wave was in 1948. when the majority of them. some 650.000. were forcibly expelled from Palestine. and were dumped on the East Side of the River Jordan. or on the West Bank. mostly living in refugee camps. The economy of Jordan at the time. and even now. was very primitive. and we in this country knew the dislocation which some one million foreign immigrants can bring about in... in our economy. Compared to the population of Jordan this amounts to something like forty million foreign immigrants coming to this country without much education. without any possessions or property. and this of necessity would lead to tensions between the . . . the Jordanian community. the past Jordanian population. and the new Palestinians. It is frequently imagined that the Arabs form one big family. a happy united family. I think this is false.
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Generalization that Arabs form one big happy family is false.