montelatici
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One just has to nod ones head at such Drivel
Or look for the real facts and hang your head in shame
Demographic history of Jerusalem - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia[TBODY] [/TBODY]
1905 13,300 11,000 8,100 32,400 1905 Ottoman census (only Ottoman citizens) U.O.Schmelz[37] 1922 33,971 13,413 14,669 62,578 Census of Palestine (British) Harrel and Stendel, 1974 1931 51,200 19,900 19,300 90,053 Census of Palestine (British) Harrel and Stendel, 1974 1944 97,000 30,600 29,400 157,000 ? Harrel and Stendel, 1974 1967 195,700 54,963 12,646 263,307 Harrel, 1974
Ah, Wikipedia. Interesting how there's a sudden upsurge in 1896 and all of a sudden in 1905 a 50% drop then in 1922 a 50% rise. The reality is that there was no reliable demographic of the area until the British 1922 census. Also the "Jewish" figures do not differentiate between the native sephardic population and the European Ashkenazi colonists.
Check the sources listed. As Jewish population increased, the Muslim invasion increased. The British encouraged it, and have documented it.
This is what the British documented. What you are posting are secondary and tertiary interpretations probably effectively edited by trained Hasbara wikipedia editors. Is the source document just too factual and contrary to the brainwashing you have received?
So, between 1922 and 1937 increase by migration was 245,433 for the Jews, 25,168 for the Muslims and 10,414 for the Christians.
- See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Report of the Mandatory to the LoN 31 December 1937
I wouldn't be quoting the British if I were you, when they admitted to encouraging and documenting the Arab Invasion of Palestine during that time period:
By contrast, throughout the Mandatory period, Arab immigration was unrestricted. In 1930, the Hope Simpson Commission, sent from London to investigate the 1929 Arab riots, said the British practice of ignoring the uncontrolled illegal Arab immigration from Egypt, Transjordan and Syria had the effect of displacing the prospectiveJewish immigrants. 8
The British Governor of the Sinai from 1922–36 observed: “This illegal immigration was not only going on from the Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to share that misery.” 9
The Peel Commission reported in 1937 that the “shortfall of land is . . . due less to the amount of land acquired by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population.” 10
The gates of Palestine remained closed for the duration of the war, stranding hundreds of thousands of Jews in Europe, many of whom became victims of Hitler’s“Final Solution.” After the war, the British refused to allow the survivors of the Nazi nightmare to find sanctuary in Palestine.
The rapid growth of the Arab population was a result of several factors. One was immigration from neighboring states—constituting 37 percent of the total immigration to pre-state Israel—by Arabs who wanted to take advantage of the higher standard of living the Jews had made possible. 15 The Arab population also grew because of the improved living conditions created by the Jews as they drained malarial swamps and brought improved sanitation and health care to the region. Thus, for example, the Muslim infant mortality rate fell from 201 per thousand in 1925 to 94 per thousand in 1945 and life expectancy rose from 37 years in 1926 to 49 in 1943. 16
The Arab population increased the most in cities where large Jewish populations had created new economic opportunities. From 1922–1947, the non-Jewish population increased 290 percent in Haifa, 131 percent inJerusalem 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. 17
Despite the growth in their population, the Arabs continued to assert they were being displaced. From the beginning of World War I, however, part of Palestine’s land was owned by absentee landlords who lived in Cairo, Damascus and Beirut. About 80 percent of the Palestinian Arabs were debt-ridden peasants, semi-nomads and Bedouins. 18
Jews actually went out of their way to avoid purchasing land in areas where Arabs might be displaced. They sought land that was largely uncultivated, swampy, cheap and, most important, without tenants. In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as “the most important asset of the native population.” Ben-Gurion said “under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them.” He advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. “Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement,” Ben-Gurion added, “should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.” 19
In 1931, Lewis French conducted a survey of landlessness for the British government and offered new plots to any Arabs who had been “dispossessed.” British officials received more than 3,000 applications, of which 80 percent were ruled invalid by the Government’s legal adviser because the applicants were not landless Arabs. This left only about 600 landless Arabs, 100 of whom accepted the Government land offer.
You are posting propaganda and I am posting fact from an official report. Do I have to post it again or are you so thick headed that you will believe propaganda (without any link by the way) rather than official reports? Arabs owned about 95% of the land.