THE DISPLACEMENT OF JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES==
It has been argued that as a result of Israel's creation under United Nations Resolution 181 and the ensuing conflict that hundreds of thousands of Jews from Arab countries were displaced and that the influx of these displaced Jews and their descendants now constitute 55% of the present day Israel population if Thomas Friedman http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DC1F3FF935A35751C1A961948260 is correct. Such a demographic shift and its causes would surely impact the political/cultural makeup of Israel and should be noted.  

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