Completely wrong there are lots and lots of cases where people have written that a place was abandoned or not settled simply because they did not know the sources which said otherwise Eg many sources stated that Alma Safad was first populated with Algerians in the 18the century only because they did not know the H tteroth and Abdulfattah survey which showed that it was huge back in 1596 Even Walid Khalidi wrote in his standard book about the 48 villages that Samakh Tiberias was established in the early 19th century he obviously didn t know that Pierre Jacotin had it marked as a village already in 1799 Should we state that Samakh was established in the early 19th century just because Khalidi says so even though we have another source which contradict him No no and no again Khalidi lists a long list in his Bibliography in his 1992 book However the Karmon 1960 article is not there Again don t you think I haven t seen this loads of times writing about these villages which is why I stated earlier I have never found either the Jewish Virtual Library or even Britannica good enough for these Palestinian places Again take that Ringel 1975 book see here and search for Roger and you get p 174 I am actually considering buying Rigel even if I don t read French just to find out which Roger he refers to That book is not in any library in my country so I can not borrow it easily