- Dec 6, 2009
- 78,563
- 4,345
- 1,815
Isn't there a poster that goes along with that slogan? In fact the Arabs who attacked the Jewish communities were for the most part the foreign invasion, having come to the Mandate recently in wave after wave of illegal immigration from the surrounding Arab countries and rendering the indigenous Arab population into an insignificant and powerless minority. The UN acknowledged this fact by defining a Palestinian refugee as some who
Bullcrap propaganda. Studies of the increase in the Palestinian population said that immigration was insignificant. The increase was a little less than 1% per year. Hardly the "flood of Arab immigrants" the the lying propagandists claim.
Of course these "studies" were all propaganda that used 600,000 or 700,000 as the initial population of Arabs west if the Jordan River, when the British reported that this was the number of all persons in the Mandate, including what would shortly become Trans Jordan, Arab or not. Since Trans Jordan comprised 78% of the Mandate, the population west of the Jordan River was no more than 22% of 700,000 or 154, 000, and since the British reported that there were 76,000 Jews in this area, there could have been no more than 78,000 Arabs in the area. By 1947, there were an estimated 1,200,000 Arabs in the area, a 15+ increase in Arab population - even bunnies couldn't push out babies that fast. Moreover, the British reports to the League of Nations complain that while the British were able to effectively stop Jewish immigration, they could do little to stem the flood of Arab immigrants coming from the surrounding countries. Later the UN acknowledged that most Arabs in the area were recent immigrants when, under pressure from Arab countries, the UN defined a Palestinian refugee as
Under UNRWA's operational definition, Palestine refugees are people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.
Palestine refugees-UNRWA
West of the Jordan there were many major population centers. East of the Jordan was very sparsely populated.
You need to find a better source for your numbers.