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Continue to Chat"He wonders about the mysterious bond between Jews and oranges. Both arrived in Palestine about the same time…. Neither Jews nor oranges could have prospered if the British had not ruled over Palestine." Fiction writer Ari Shavit, MY PROMISED LAND, p. 67 ------------------------------------------------------------------- “We were raised on the stories of Israeli citrus exports under the famous ‘Jaffa’ brand, but we know very little about the Arab citrus growers,” Farkash notes. Dr. Nahum Karlinsky, from Ben-Gurion University’s Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, has studied citrus growing in pre-state Palestine. “The citrus industry is perceived in the Israeli consciousness as an exclusively Zionist pioneering effort. In fact, the Palestinian-Arab citrus industry predated it, and for most of the period, until 1948, exceeded it in both physical area and quantity of exports,” https://www.normanfinkelstein.com/he-wonders-about-the-mysterious-bond-between-jews-and-oranges-both-arrived-in-palestine-about-the-same-time-neither-jews-nor-oranges-could-have-prospered-if-the-british-had-not-ruled/