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.
You need to read up. Britain consistently closed down Palestinian institutions while jailing, expelling, or killing their leaders.
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.
Would you have links for that crap?
Lacking verifiable evidence did not prevent Bachi from stating the obvious concerning internal migration within Palestine:
The great economic development of the coastal plains—largely due to Jewish immigration—was accompanied both in 1922-1931 and in 1931-1944 by a much stronger increase of the Muslim and Christian populations in this region than that registered in other regions. This was probably due to two reasons: stronger decrease in mortality of the non-Jewish population in the neighborhood of Jewish areas and
internal migration toward the more developed zones.
[22]
In the footnote accompanying this quote, Bachi writes: "As no statistics are available for internal migration, this conclusion has been obtained from indirect evidence."
[23] Bachi's footnote is instructive. The "indirect evidence" he referred to no doubt included his understanding of the important role economics plays in explaining demographic movements. While appreciating the value of Ottoman registrations and British mandatory government censuses in providing estimates of Palestinian demography, they were, in his judgment, still crude and incomplete.
Reference to Arab immigration into Palestine during the 1920s is made as well in the British mandatory government's annual compilation of statistical data on population. The
Palestine Blue Book, 1937, for example, provides time series demographic statistics whose annual estimates are based on extrapolations from its 1922 census.
[24] The footnote accompanying the table on population of Palestine reads:
There has been unrecorded illegal immigration of both Jews and Arabs in the period since the census of 1931, but it is clear that, since it cannot be recorded, no estimate of its volume is possible.
[25]
The 1935 British report to the League of Nations noted that:
One thousand five hundred and fifty-seven persons (including 565 Jews) who, having made their way into the country surreptitiously, were later detected, were sentenced to imprisonment for their offence and recommended for deportation.
[26]
The number who "made their way into the country surreptitiously" and undetected was neither estimated nor mentioned.
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The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931
