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Zababdeh

In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian town in the northern west bank located 15 km southeast of jenin and 2 km from the arab american uni”. Today it says “town in the state of palestine”.
Measured, not asserted. Every count, date and revision on this page was taken from Wikipedia's own history and checked against the live article. The words quoted are theirs.
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The opening as it read in 2010

Zababdeh ( ) is a Palestinian town in the northern West Bank located 15 km southeast of Jenin and 2 km from the Arab American University - Jenin .1 Its jurisdiction consists of 5,719 dunams, three-fifths being covered with olive and fig groves.2

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Today
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “palestinian town in the northern west bank located 15 km southeast of jenin and 2 km from the arab american uni”. Today it says “town in the state of palestine”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is

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Then

palestinian town in the northern west bank located 15 km southeast of jenin and 2 km from the arab american uni

Now

town in the state of palestine

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