Got a link for that??
BTW, why does it matter if Israelis can't trace their ancestors more than 2 generations? They have nothing to prove , as the country belongs to them.
in 1922 there were only 83,000 Jews and 665,000 Arabs in Palestine.
In 1920, the League of Nations' Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine stated that there were hardly 700,000 people living in Palestine:
The Jewish element of the population numbers 76,000. Almost
all have entered Palestine during the last 40 years. Prior to 1850 there were in the country only a handful of Jews. In the following 30 years a few hundreds came to Palestine. Most of them were animated by religious motives; they came to pray and to die in the Holy Land, and to be buried in its soil. After the persecutions in Russia forty years ago, the movement of the Jews to Palestine assumed larger proportions. Jewish agricultural colonies were founded. They developed the culture of oranges and gave importance to the Jaffa orange trade. They cultivated the vine, and manufactured and exported wine. They drained swamps. They planted eucalyptus trees. They practised, with modern methods, all the processes of agriculture. There are at the present time 64 of these settlements, large and small, with a population of some 15,000.[44]
Demographics of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The overall assessment of several British reports was that the increase in the Arab population was
primarily due to natural increase.[47][48] These included the Hope Simpson report (1930),[49] the Passfield White Paper (1930)[50] the Peel Commission report (1937)[51] and the Survey of Palestine (1945).[52] The 1931 census of Palestine considered the question of illegal immigration since the previous census in 1922.[53] It estimated that unrecorded immigration during that period may have amounted to 9,000 Jews and 4,000 Arabs.[53]
It also gave the fraction of persons living in Palestine in 1931 who were born outside Palestine: Muslims, 2%; Christians, 20%; Jews, 58%.
Demographics of Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yehoshua Porath believes that the notion of "large-scale immigration of Arabs from the neighboring countries" is
a myth "proposed by Zionist writers".
McCarthy explains, "...
evidence for Muslim immigration into Palestine is minimal. Because no Ottoman records of that immigration have yet been discovered, one is thrown back on demographic analysis to evaluate Muslim migration."[56][57] McCarthy argues that there is no significant Arab immigration into mandatory Palestine:
According to Martin Gilbert,
50,000 Arabs immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from the neighboring lands between 1919 and 1939 "attracted by the improving agricultural conditions and growing job opportunities, most of them created by the Jews".[45] The Arab population of Palestine doubled during the mandatory period from 670 000 in 1922 to over 1,2 million in 1948. The estimates on the scope of Arab immigration to Palestine during this period range from insignificant numbers to almost 300 000.[citation needed] According to Itzhak Galnoor, although most of Arab population increase came from natural increase, the Arab immigration to Palestine was not insignificant.
Based on his estimates approximately 100 000 Arabs immigrated to Palestine between 1922 and 1948.
