- Mar 16, 2012
- 59,248
- 17,529
- 2,180
Opening the flood gates to illegal Arab migrants certainly bumped it. That's why the big difference between the pre British Ottoman numbers, and the post mandate fake numbers.I haven't seen any statistics on this but the citizenship order of 1925 gave citizenship to all Palestinians who were present and gave Palestinians who happened to be out of country three years (I think) to return to Palestine to claim their citizenship. This may have caused a bump in population.Actually it was the opposite, the British opened the floodgates to illegal Arab migrants from neighboring lands because the Arab leaders went to the British and squealed their heads off.You need to read up. Britain consistently closed down Palestinian institutions while jailing, expelling, or killing their leaders.There is no chance there will ever be an independent Palestinian state. When the conditions were right for the establishment of an independent Palestinian in the 1920s, the British prevented the then Muslim and large Christian minority from establishing their state and imported European settler colonists instead.
False. The British never prevented Arabs-Moslems from establishing a state. The inability of Arabs-Moslems to take the steps necessary to form a workable government falls squarely on Arab-Moslem incompetence. Don't be a forever accomplice to Arab-Moslem incompetence and ineptitude.
Ruddy the Black Knight strikes again. Continues to make things up.
"(b) IMMIGRATION AND NATURAL INCREASE
15. These changes in the population have been brought about by two forces: natural increase and immigration. The great increase in the Jewish population is due in the main to immigration. From 1920 to 1946, the total number of recorded Jewish immigrants into Palestine was about 376,000, or an average of over 8,000 per year.
16. The Arab population has increased almost entirely as a result of an excess of births over deaths."
A/364 of 3 September 1947