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List of villages depopulated during the Arab–Israeli conflict
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “partly or wholly destroyed”. Today it says “list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the arab–israeli conflict”.
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The opening as it read in 2005
Villages are arranged according to the pre-1948 subdistrict they were situated in. The list does not include Arab districts of mixed cities which were partly or wholly destroyed.1
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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “partly or wholly destroyed”. Today it says “list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the arab–israeli conflict”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
partly or wholly destroyed
Now
list of villages depopulated or destroyed during the arab–israeli conflict
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