One hundred years ago when European Jews began the colonization of Palestine, there were ten times as many non-Jews as Jews living there.
By 1948 when Israel came into existence, the ratio had shrunk to 2:1.
Today there are roughly equal number of Jews and non-Jews living between the River and the sea.
How much additional land and water are the Jews of Israel entitled to?
Map of Palestine over the Years - Episcopal Peace Fellowship
Palestine was never a country. As far as the people, it’s a pity they didn’t accept the U.N. plan.
History of Palestine - Wikipedia
"During
World War I the
British government issued the
Balfour Declaration of 1917, stating that the British Government favors the establishment of national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
"The British captured Jerusalem a month later.
"The League of Nations formally awarded Britain a
mandate over Palestine in 1922."
Non-Jews owned land and water in Palestine for centuries before European Jews began their Zionist occupation.
It's a pity Israeli settlements have continued that racist policy over the past 50 years.
Palestine Before The Zionists Stole It
Again …. Palestine was never a country. A hard pill for some to swallow, I know.
What point do you imagine you are making when you state: "Palestine was never a country"?
Are you saying there was a complete absence of land and water rights in that part of the world prior to 1948?
The forgotten story of the original Jaffa oranges
"The Forgotten Story of the Original Jaffa Oranges..."
"Dr. Nahum Karlinsky, from Ben-Gurion University’s Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, has studied citrus growing in pre-state Palestine.
"'The citrus industry is perceived in the Israeli consciousness as an exclusively Zionist pioneering effort.
"In fact, the Palestinian-Arab citrus industry predated it, and for most of the period, until 1948, exceeded it in both physical area and quantity of exports,' Karlinsky and co-author Prof. Mustafa Kabha, from the Open University, wrote in an article recently published in the historical journal Zmanim. (Karlinsky has also published a book in English on the subject: 'California Dreaming: Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939.')"