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July 24, 2002       Share:    

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-07-22-palestinians_x.htm#more

Palestinian-Americans Flee West Bank

(USA Today) - There has been a stampede of middle-class Palestinians out of the territories. Many of those leaving are Palestinian-American families who had left suburban lives in the U.S. to return after the 1995 peace accords. "The Americans" built hotels, restaurants, supermarkets, stores, and sprawling red-roofed houses on the outskirts of Ramallah. Membership in the Palestinian-American Society, which represented 1,000 families in the West Bank and Gaza in late 2000, has dwindled to 200 families.

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