POPULATION of Palestine aka
The Land of Israel:
Before the name change to the State of Israel, "Arab/Palestinians" were the same Arab people living in the area called Palestine aka the Land of Israel. By the 1940’s, the vast majority of Arab-Palestinians (Muslims, Jews, and Christians) were immigrants or descendants of those who immigrated after 1870, since the land was so VERY sparsely populated in the mid 1800’s and desolate. "Truth is stranger than fiction."
[Note the mere 2 year period of residence for claiming refugee status: Arab Palestine refugees are defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine aka the Land of Israel during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.” Of all the refugees, they are the ONLY ones to perpetuate the status to all partrilineal descendants. The Arab League has instructed its members to deny them citizenship.]
Since the Roman destruction of Jerusalem in year 70 AD (after 12 CENTURIES of the Children of Israel in the Holy Land), there have continuously been some of the Jewish family and communities living in the Holy Land, and whenever possible this included the heart of the Holy Land, Jerusalem.
Jews had been a constant presence in the Holy Land, long before there were Zionists; largely poor, they were largely concentrated, in separate Jewish quarters, in the towns of Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed, and Tiberius. A few were merchants and shopkeepers, some were petty craftsmen, and some spent their days praying and studying, living off contributions from abroad. The newcomers, the Zionists, were to concentrate, not on merely living (or dying) in the Holy Land, but on making a living, with the distinct idea of re-forming an autonomous Jewish community in the ancient Jewish homeland.
Overall the Jewish population, like the population in general, had remained fairly stable from the earliest days of Ottoman rule until the 19th century. The introduction of stable Turkish government, and their promoting Jews to return to their homeland and revive its desolation into a producing land; and the Christian influence from outside, and in particular the abolishment of the laws discriminating against non-Muslims, led to a disproportionately larger growth of Jews in the Holy Land. According to Ben-Aryeh, the pre-eminent student of 19th century geography, Jews increased from 28,500 in 1800’s to about 65,000 by 1880, his figures including Jews who were not Ottoman citizens.
By the mid 1800’s, the land was VERY sparsely populated.
1857: British consul, James Finn, reported "The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population."
1859: British Consulate report: The Muslims of Jerusalem do not exceed a fourth of the entire population.
1867: Charles Wyllys Elliott, president of Harvard University, wrote: "A beautiful sea lies unbosomed, among the Galilean hills in the mist of that land once possessed by Zebulon and Naphtali, Asher and Dan. Life here was one idyllic... now it is a scene of desolation and misery."
1867: American author Mark Twain visited the Holy Land, and wrote about it in his book “The Innocents Abroad”: “…[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds -a silent mournful expanse….A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action….We never saw a human being on the whole route….There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” "There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation." "One may ride ten miles hereabouts, and not see ten human beings."
1874: Reverend Samuel Manning wrote in his book, "Those Holy Fields" But where was the inhabitants? This fertile plain which might support an immense population is almost solitude."
Starting in 1878, enormous waves of Muslim immigration began arriving in what was essentially an empty territory. The Ottoman Sultan launched a resettlement policy to bring foreign Muslims, mainly from Circassia & Algeria.
⇨Unlike Arabs, when Jews immigrated to the Holy Land, it was the indigenous people returning.⇦
1921- : Franklin D. Roosevelt, president of the United States, said on May 17, 1939, "The Arab immigration to Palestine since 1921 was much greater than Jewish immigration." It was the British who turned a blind eye while hundreds of thousands of Arabs crossed the border into Palestine aka the Land of Israel.
1922 – 1947: Arab population increased the most in cities with large Jewish populations that had created new economic opportunities. The non-Jewish population increased 290 percent in Haifa, 131 percent in Jerusalem and 158 percent in Jaffa. The growth in Arab towns was more modest: 42 percent in Nablus, 78 percent in Jenin and 37 percent in Bethlehem.
1934: The governor of the Syrian district of Hauran, Tewfik Bey El Hurani, admitted in 1934, which in a single period of only a few months, over 35,000 Syrians from Houran had moved to Palestine aka the Land of Israel.
1939: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister and a veteran of the British Mandate in the Holy Land, noted in 1939 the Arab illegal invasion: The Arabs have crowded into the country by over two hundred thousand and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all worlds Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.
June 1948: The Jews point with pride to the fact that over 500,000 Arabs, in the 12 years in-between 1932-1944, came into Palestine to take advantage of living conditions existing in no other Arab state. - Robert F. Kennedy visited the British Mandate of Palestine in 1948, one month before Israel declared its independence, and reported this for the Boston Post.
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"The Arab Palestinian people have no national identity. I Yasser Arafat, man of destiny, will give them that identity through conflict with Israel." -Yasser Arafat.
"The Arab Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of an Arab Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity." –Arab PLO executive committee member, Zahir Muhsein, 1977.
The late military commander of the Arab PLO, as well as member of the Arab PLO Executive Council, Zuhair Muhsin. Said the following to James Dorsey in a 1977 interview in the Dutch newspaper "Trouw" - There are no differences between Jordanians, Arab Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Arab Palestinian identity....yes; the existence of a separate Arab Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of an Arab Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel.
"It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but southern Syria."
- Ahmed Shuqeiri, later the chairman of the PLO, to the UN Security Council
"There is no such country [as Palestine]! ’Palestine' is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Arab Palestine in the Qur’an. Our country was for century’s part of Syria."
- Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, a local Arab leader, to the Peel Commission, 1937
Zuheir Mohsen uniquely both an Arab PLO leader and an official in the ideologically Pan-Arabism Syrian Ba'ath party at the same time. As such, he stated that there were no differences between Jordanians, Arab Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese", though Arab Palestinian identity would be emphasized for political reasons. This originated in a March 1977 interview with the Dutch newspaper Trouw: "Between Jordanians, Arab Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese there are no differences. We are all part of ONE people, the Arab nation. Look, I have family members with Arab/Palestinian, Lebanese, Jordanian and Syrian citizenship. We are ONE people. Just for political reasons we carefully underwrite our Arab Palestinian identity. Because it is of national interest for the Arabs to advocate the existence of Arab Palestinians to balance Zionism. Yes, the existence of a separate Arab Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of an Arab Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity."
"There is no Arab Palestinian nation! There is an Arab nation, but no Arab Palestinian nation. This was invented by the colonial powers. When are the Arab Palestinians mentioned in history? Never!" - Azmi Bishara, Arab Palestinian intellectual and former Arab Knesset member who fled to Qatar to avoid prosecution for aiding the enemy.
The
Arab-Palestinian Violence must be stopped at all costs, no holds barred, zero
tolerance r4
Israel and the Jewish people must stand United against evil
terror and violence. This is no time to be selfish and score political points
on the dead bodies of Jewish souls.
The situation today with terror attacks on a daily basis is no different than
July 2014 when Hamas - a recognized terrorist organization firing thousands of
missiles against Israel's population centers.
These are very difficult days. The escalating Arab violence and attack after
attack carried out by Arab savage knife wielders and inhuman vehicular use and
knifing as a weapon of terror are again putting to a test the spiritual
strength and resolve of the Israeli people. Our enemies, both foreign and
domestic, should know that we will never lose our will to live as a free people
in our homeland; NEVER AGAIN is not just words, because we have no other home
in the world. Israel is the only Jewish country for over 4000 years. We must defend it no
matter what, damn the torpedoes. Jews who are not willing to grasp a sword will
not be able to hold onto life, we will not let a Holocaust decimate us. We will
not give up and we will not capitulate or cower to terror, threats and
intimidation, because this is our mission in life. Weakness is not leadership
and endless fruitless concessions do not constitute a vision.
While we preach and pursue peace and coexistence, the Arabs are pursuing
terror, death and violence. They, the Arabs clearly state in no ambiguous terms
that they want to kill the Jews and destroy Israel.
The Israeli government must send a clear and determined message and act with
all the force necessary to put the murderous violence to a halt. This is war,
and we have no choice but to win at all costs, if we want to live and prosper.
"Let us all as a unified nation go up at once, and possess it; for we are
well able to overcome it." We have turned a desert into a flourishing
country; we can and will defend our homeland at all costs.
Jewish celebrating the
Liberation of Jerusalem has been the hope and aspirations of the Jewish people
for close to 2000 years. The Romans significantly outnumbered, the Maccabee's
succeeded against great odds by combining strategy, devotion to God and a
willingness to sacrifice themselves in their unified battle against both
assimilation and religious persecution. They returned to rededicate the ransacked
and desecrated temple in Jerusalem
with renewed faith and hope for the future. Today is no different, The Jewish
nation is fighting for its survival, let us follow in the footsteps of our
ancestors.
The increased Arab terrorism
and violence in Greater Israel is promoting Arab-Palestinian population
transfer out of the land of Israel.
The Arab attacks on Jews and
continued violence explicitly raising the option of population transfer by
recommending that Israel "find an outlet for this [Arab-Palestinian] population east of
the Jordan River and elsewhere. It is also promoting the venue of
relocating the Arab-Palestinians in Israel to the Million homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of land
of the Jewish people that was confiscated by the Arabs who terrorized the Jews
and expelled them from the Arab countries.
YJ Draiman
P.S.
Mahmoud
Abbas has no right to demand anything, he belongs in jail.
The Arabs cannot be trusted – Mahmoud Abbas aka Abu Mazen the financier of the
Munich Olympics massacre and mastermind of the Achille Lauro, a multiple
Murderer and convicted murderer on the run. (Where-ever the Muslims are in the
world there is upheaval, killing and destruction).
It is time to put Mahmoud Abbas in jail where
he belongs and charge him with crimes against humanity and murder charges for
being complicit in terror attacks and the death of many people and inciting
terror and violence.
