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Why this arbitrary timeframe of “8 decades”? Why not 6 (to Jordanian and Egyotian control of West Bank and Gaza) or 9 (to British control) or 11 (Ottoman - Turkish - control) or 300 (Jewish control)?

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It’s not arbitrary at all, that’s when Israel was created via ethnic cleansing.

Israel was NOT created through ethnic cleansing. It was a declared a state first, and only then attacked by the Arabs in Palestine and around it, which led to whatever narrative of history you wish to accept. But at the time of the Nakba Israel was already a done deal, legally speaking.

Now, one must ask what would have happened to the Jews in Palestine had they lost that war...

That's incorrect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

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