AP Multiplies Number of Palestinians Displaced to Jordan

Gilead Ini
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13 December '10

How many of the roughly 600,000-700,000 Palestinians who fled their homes during the Arab-Israeli war found refuge in the Jordan?

If you guessed 1.8 million, you should re-read the question, a bit more closely this time.

Mathematical impossibility notwithstanding, the Associated Press insists that 1.8 million Palestinians displaced after 1948 live in Jordan, along with an unknown number of their descendants. As AP's Jamal Halaby put it in an article about clashes between Bedouin and Palestinian fans of rival soccer teams,

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