Kiruna is in an unfortunate predicament, but if I had a company willing to relocate my home, family, and community 10 miles down the road in order to save the o

Kiruna is in an unfortunate predicament, but if I had a company willing to relocate my home, family, and community 10 miles down the road in order to save the only job I would ever have in the region (and a well-paying one, at that), I think I'd be pretty happy about it. And this is far from the only city to have ever been moved (as the article noted). A much more tragic story is that of those towns and villages in Palestine, where communities of over 700,000 people were uprooted and families forced to relocate wholesale to refugee settlements when Israel was declared in 1948. These settlements in Gaza and West Bank that have retained the names of the original communities whence their inhabitants came several generations before.