'Palestinian'

The Crusaders were not settler colonists, they arrived to rule over the existing native inhabitants, like the Arabs and Romans did.

Wait, what?! Ruling over the existing native inhabitants is legit? Cool. Then you can no longer complain about "apartheid". Jew rule, as you call it, is totally legit, right?

Apartheid South Africa was a legal state recognized by other states. And, of course the manner in which the Jews invaded and colonized Palestine, evicting and.or murdering the native population, was just as despicable as other settler colonial invasions, e.g. Algeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, etc.
 
Is this author and website ever going to be attacked? How dare they make such an assertion? It goes against everything the anti-Israel forces have been saying since the '40s. Next thing you know, they will claim the area is such a mess because of outside forces (Israel) and not their own corruption and ineptitude.

They are a mix of Jordanians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrian, Sudanese etc. who settled within the area known as the British Mandate of Palestine. This land encompassed 43,000 square miles and was promised to the Jews as a national homeland in the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Yet, in 1922 the British turned over 75% of it to create the nation of Transjordan, (today’s Jordan). This left roughly 25% or 11,000 square miles of land to be dealt with.

In 1947 the British decided to leave the area and turned the issue over to the United Nations, which by a 72% majority voted to partition two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. However, the surrounding Arab nations rejected the vote and attacked the new Jewish state one day after its independence, intending to destroy it. This is all indisputable fact.

Much more of this heretical essay @ Articles: 'Palestinian' Is a Fabricated Nationality
So why are you repeating their drivel ??

Ignore list.
 
Is this author and website ever going to be attacked? How dare they make such an assertion? It goes against everything the anti-Israel forces have been saying since the '40s. Next thing you know, they will claim the area is such a mess because of outside forces (Israel) and not their own corruption and ineptitude.

They are a mix of Jordanians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Syrian, Sudanese etc. who settled within the area known as the British Mandate of Palestine. This land encompassed 43,000 square miles and was promised to the Jews as a national homeland in the 1917 Balfour Declaration. Yet, in 1922 the British turned over 75% of it to create the nation of Transjordan, (today’s Jordan). This left roughly 25% or 11,000 square miles of land to be dealt with.

In 1947 the British decided to leave the area and turned the issue over to the United Nations, which by a 72% majority voted to partition two separate states, one Jewish and one Arab. However, the surrounding Arab nations rejected the vote and attacked the new Jewish state one day after its independence, intending to destroy it. This is all indisputable fact.

Much more of this heretical essay @ Articles: 'Palestinian' Is a Fabricated Nationality
Arab leaders and respected historians and figures said exactly that, back then. They shunned the idea of the existence of a Palestine or Palestinian people, because up to the 1960's the term "Palestinian" meant that you're a Jew, which was insulting to the Arabs!
 
The Crusaders were not settler colonists, they arrived to rule over the existing native inhabitants, like the Arabs and Romans did.

Wait, what?! Ruling over the existing native inhabitants is legit? Cool. Then you can no longer complain about "apartheid". Jew rule, as you call it, is totally legit, right?

Apartheid South Africa was a legal state recognized by other states. And, of course the manner in which the Jews invaded and colonized Palestine, evicting and.or murdering the native population, was just as despicable as other settler colonial invasions, e.g. Algeria, Rhodesia, South Africa, etc.
Yawn, same repetitive shitspam, different thread. Was the topic "apartheid", no it wasn't.
 
The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was an independent state in Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. There is not much to differentiate a Colombian from a Panamanian, yet they are separate nationalities. Same for Tunisia and Libya. However, the people of Palestine were different enough from the surrounding people (a large Christian population) so that the Ottomans created the Kudus Special District (encompassing Palestine) ruled directly from Istanbul rather than from the Syrian administrative district.

Was that after the invasion by the colonizing xtian Crusaders?

What hypocricy by monte!! The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a legal country but not the modern state of Israel? The current Jews are colonizers but the Christian Crusaders were not?

As for your other assertion, Lebanon was separated from Syria because of its large Christian population (which the Muslims have since decimated), but that was not the case with Palestine.

Where have I said that the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a legal state and Israel is not? You must be confusing me with someone else.

The Crusaders were not settler colonists, they arrived to rule over the existing native inhabitants, like the Arabs and Romans did. The Zionists expelled the native inhabitants, to settle their population there. There is a difference.

Palestine had a large Christian population before the Zionists arrived, as many as 20% were Christian. And, the Kudus Special District (Palestine) was ruled directly from Istanbul, unlike Syria. It's just an historical fact.

Lebanon was split from Syria by the French, not the Ottomans, get your history straight.
Ha ha ha! It said "the Crusaders 'arrived' to rule over..."!
Never in my life have I seen someone so full of ignorance and hate.
 
And to the point, sadly, they're here now, and they're not walking away, just like we won't. So let's hope Israel will get both a wise and fearless leader to solve this conflict once and for all.
 
The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was an independent state in Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. There is not much to differentiate a Colombian from a Panamanian, yet they are separate nationalities. Same for Tunisia and Libya. However, the people of Palestine were different enough from the surrounding people (a large Christian population) so that the Ottomans created the Kudus Special District (encompassing Palestine) ruled directly from Istanbul rather than from the Syrian administrative district.

Was that after the invasion by the colonizing xtian Crusaders?

What hypocricy by monte!! The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a legal country but not the modern state of Israel? The current Jews are colonizers but the Christian Crusaders were not?

As for your other assertion, Lebanon was separated from Syria because of its large Christian population (which the Muslims have since decimated), but that was not the case with Palestine.

Where have I said that the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem was a legal state and Israel is not? You must be confusing me with someone else.

The Crusaders were not settler colonists, they arrived to rule over the existing native inhabitants, like the Arabs and Romans did. The Zionists expelled the native inhabitants, to settle their population there. There is a difference.

Palestine had a large Christian population before the Zionists arrived, as many as 20% were Christian. And, the Kudus Special District (Palestine) was ruled directly from Istanbul, unlike Syria. It's just an historical fact.

Lebanon was split from Syria by the French, not the Ottomans, get your history straight.
Ha ha ha! It said "the Crusaders 'arrived' to rule over..."!
Never in my life have I seen someone so full of ignorance and hate.

What do you think the Crusaders did? You are so blinded by propaganda you deny the most basic historical facts.

Fortunately, reports of the status of the Holy Land were regularly sent to Rome wherein the Latin crusader rulers reported on the indigenous people they ruled over. That's how we also know who the indigenous people were, i.e. the people that had converted to Eastern Orthodox Christianity centuries before. It is called source documentation from official reports. Something you know nothing of.

"It is also from the late 12th century onward that we start to see textual categorizations of the subject peoples. Latin pilgrimage accounts had already from midcentury drawn attention to the multiplicity of confessions and faiths to be found in the Holy Land. A text probably written in response to a request for information about the current state of the Holy Land from the papal curia in the 1180s, the Tractatus de statu et populo terrae sanctae, lists the indigenous Christian peoples according to theology, language, custom and also to some extent appearance: hair styles and head-coverings being particularly significant."

http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/normaned...ranks and Natives in the Crusader States'.pdf
 
I do believe Palestinians are real people even include some Jews. The jews came from Europe, Germany, Poland, Russia and Ukraine. The Palestinians never left. How would you like the Indians to take the US back and say us European whites do not belong here? Israel was to be set up as a secular state, not a jewish one, Russia is the third most spoken language in Israel.
"Palestinians" [are an] Arab people No one heard of before 1967 before Israeli governments certified this piece of Propaganda...
As has been noted many times before, prior to 1948, that is before Jews had begun to call themselves Israelis,
the ONLY persons known as "Palestinians" were Jews,
with the Arabs much preferrring to identify themselves as part of the great Arab nation.
- David Basch


"...Palestine does not belong to the "Palestinians" and never did. They did not even call themselves Palestinians until the middle 1960s.
Before that, the word "Palestinian" meant "Jewish,"
while the local Arabs called themselves simply "Arabs."
The creation of the PLO by Gamal Abdul Nasser in 1964 was a brilliant ploy to distort the parameters of the dispute, largely for propaganda purposes.
It was inconvenient to have a conflict between 20-odd Arab states with an area 530 times greater than Israel, a population more than 30 times greater than Israel's and enormously richer natural resources.
Far better to Invent a "Palestinian" nation that would be the eternal "underdog," -
a nation consisting partly of Immigrants from Syria and other Arab countries who came to benefit from the rapidly growing economy Zionist Jews created..."
- westerndefense.org


"There is NO language known as Palestinian. - There is NO distinct Palestinian culture.
There has NEVER been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians.
Palestinians are Arabs, indistinguishable from Jordanians (another Recent Invention)
, Syrians, Lebanese, Iraqis, etc.
Keep in mind that the Arabs control 99.9% of the Middle East lands. Israel represents one-tenth of 1% of the landmass.
But that's too much for the Arabs. They want it all. And that is ultimately what the fighting in Israel is about today. Greed. Pride. Envy. Covetousness.
No matter how many land concessions the Israelis make, it will never be enough....""
- Joseph Farah, Arab-American journalist


So before the creation of the State of Israel, who were the Palestinians?
ANSWER:
Until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST;
the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE;
Bank Leumi was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK;
the Israel Electric Company was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY;
there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and.... the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC.
All these were JEWISH organizations.
In America, Zionist youngsters sang "PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE", "PALESTINE SCOUT SONG" and "PALESTINE SPRING SONG"
In general, the terms Palestine and Palestinian referred to the region of Palestine as it was. Thus "Palestinian Jew" and "Palestinian Arab" are straightforward expressions.
"Palestine Post" and "Palestine Philharmonic" refer to these bodies as they existed in a place then known as Palestine.
The adoption of a Palestinian identity by the Arabs of Palestine is a Recent phenomenon.
Until the establishment of the State of Israel, and for another Decade or so, the term Palestinian applied almost exclusively to the Jews.

- 'Palestinians' - The Peace FAQ
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How True Rosie, How true.

the term PALESTINIAN has been in use for many many centuries ---it applied to people LIVING IN PALESTINE-----who were jews. No arab was called a
"palestinian" until the mid 20th century------codger is a liar In fact it precedes the "MANDATE" The word 'palestinian" also referred to jews
living in palestine when it was ruled by the Ottomans-----at that time ---only jews Palestine is simply another word for Israel/Judea no matter how the gutless slobs like codger twist and turn-----Palestine = Israel/judea
and PALESTINIAN----means JEW until the word became MISAPPLIED in the mid 20th century

There were Palestine was populated with Christians from when Christianity became the state religion of Rome around 350 AD through to the Muslim conquest. After which most of the population converted to Islam over the centuries, except for a century when Palestine reverted to Christianity during the reign of the Latin Kingdon of Jerusalem. You people are dimwits.
 
How True Rosie, How true.

the term PALESTINIAN has been in use for many many centuries ---it applied to people LIVING IN PALESTINE-----who were jews. No arab was called a
"palestinian" until the mid 20th century------codger is a liar In fact it precedes the "MANDATE" The word 'palestinian" also referred to jews
living in palestine when it was ruled by the Ottomans-----at that time ---only jews Palestine is simply another word for Israel/Judea no matter how the gutless slobs like codger twist and turn-----Palestine = Israel/judea
and PALESTINIAN----means JEW until the word became MISAPPLIED in the mid 20th century

There were Palestine was populated with Christians from when Christianity became the state religion of Rome around 350 AD through to the Muslim conquest. After which most of the population converted to Islam over the centuries, except for a century when Palestine reverted to Christianity during the reign of the Latin Kingdon of Jerusalem. You people are dimwits.
And Palestine had reached 25% Jewish in the late 16th/early 17th Century.
The Ottomans decided to move some around for settlement purpose. Crete, etc.
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How True Rosie, How true.

the term PALESTINIAN has been in use for many many centuries ---it applied to people LIVING IN PALESTINE-----who were jews. No arab was called a
"palestinian" until the mid 20th century------codger is a liar In fact it precedes the "MANDATE" The word 'palestinian" also referred to jews
living in palestine when it was ruled by the Ottomans-----at that time ---only jews Palestine is simply another word for Israel/Judea no matter how the gutless slobs like codger twist and turn-----Palestine = Israel/judea
and PALESTINIAN----means JEW until the word became MISAPPLIED in the mid 20th century

There were Palestine was populated with Christians from when Christianity became the state religion of Rome around 350 AD through to the Muslim conquest. After which most of the population converted to Islam over the centuries, except for a century when Palestine reverted to Christianity during the reign of the Latin Kingdon of Jerusalem. You people are dimwits.
And Palestine had reached 25% Jewish in the late 16th/early 17th Century.
The Ottomans decided to move some around for settlement purpose. Crete, etc.
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Palestine had no Jews to speak of in the 16th or 17th century you idiot.
 
How True Rosie, How true.

the term PALESTINIAN has been in use for many many centuries ---it applied to people LIVING IN PALESTINE-----who were jews. No arab was called a
"palestinian" until the mid 20th century------codger is a liar In fact it precedes the "MANDATE" The word 'palestinian" also referred to jews
living in palestine when it was ruled by the Ottomans-----at that time ---only jews Palestine is simply another word for Israel/Judea no matter how the gutless slobs like codger twist and turn-----Palestine = Israel/judea
and PALESTINIAN----means JEW until the word became MISAPPLIED in the mid 20th century

There were Palestine was populated with Christians from when Christianity became the state religion of Rome around 350 AD through to the Muslim conquest. After which most of the population converted to Islam over the centuries, except for a century when Palestine reverted to Christianity during the reign of the Latin Kingdon of Jerusalem. You people are dimwits.
And Palestine had reached 25% Jewish in the late 16th/early 17th Century.
The Ottomans decided to move some around for settlement purpose. Crete, etc.
`

Palestine had no Jews to speak of in the 16th or 17th century you idiot.
How d'ya like my new sig, Goombah?
 
How True Rosie, How true.

the term PALESTINIAN has been in use for many many centuries ---it applied to people LIVING IN PALESTINE-----who were jews. No arab was called a
"palestinian" until the mid 20th century------codger is a liar In fact it precedes the "MANDATE" The word 'palestinian" also referred to jews
living in palestine when it was ruled by the Ottomans-----at that time ---only jews Palestine is simply another word for Israel/Judea no matter how the gutless slobs like codger twist and turn-----Palestine = Israel/judea
and PALESTINIAN----means JEW until the word became MISAPPLIED in the mid 20th century


pity you have no proof of this idiotic claim ratsy-rose...pose the most undemanding of questions here: why would a tiny Jewish minority within a sprawling Arab majority adopt the title "Palestinians"???...face the sobering facts Nazi-lady...you cannot shuffle and re-shape living history to conform to the nefarious Zionist agenda...the Arabs lived on and cultivated the land for centuries...the thuggish Ashkenazi Euro-trash had zero claim or tile...live with it Mrs Gestopo
Ach, Du lieber Gott, the beloved little Schatzi of the Nazi Bund which meets in the Yorkville section of Manhattan is calling someone Mrs. Gestapo!!! If Skitzo had only been born sooner, he would gladly have joined up with the Gestapo during World War II so that he could have had a chance to round up the Jews. Meanwhile, let me re-post what a retired State Department employee said.
Sure there was a Palestine. It was invented in the 1960s in a conference room at 1 Lubyanka, Dzershinsky Place, Red Square, Moscow, CCCP. It came complete with a "Palestinian people" too. In fact, its legacy leader was trained east of Moscow at the legendary Balashikha special-ops school.
That's right.
 
Palestine had no Jews to speak of in the 16th or 17th century you idiot.
Wrong/Stupid/anti-semitic.. as usual

History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia

"...The 16th-century nevertheless saw a resurgence of Jewish life in Palestine. Palestinian rabbis were instrumental producing a universally accepted manual of Jewish law and some of the most beautiful liturgical poems. Much of this activity occurred at Safed which had become a spiritual centre, a haven for mystics. Joseph Karo's comprehensive guide to Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, was considered so authoritative that the variant customs of German-Polish Jewry were merely added as supplement glosses.[125] Some of the most celebrated hymns were written in Safed by poets such as Israel Najara and Solomon Alkabetz.[126] The town was also a centre of Jewish mysticism, notable kabbalists included Moses Cordovero and the German-born Naphtali Hertz ben Jacob Elhanan.[127][ A new method of understanding the kabbalah was developed by Palestinian mystic Isaac Luria, and espoused by his student Chaim Vital. In Safed, the Jews developed a number of branches of trade, especially in grain, spices, textiles and dyeing.

In 1577, a Hebrew printing press was established in Safed. The 8,000 or 10,000 Jews in Safed in 1555 grew to 20,000 or 30,000 by the end of the century.

In around 1563, Joseph Nasi secured permission from Sultan Selim II to acquire Tiberias and seven surrounding villages to create a Jewish city-state. [130] He hoped that large numbers of Jewish refugees and Marranos would settle there, free from fear and oppression; indeed, the persecuted Jews of Cori, Italy, numbering about 200 souls, decided to emigrate to Tiberias.[131] Nasi had the walls of the town rebuilt by 1564 and attempted to turn it into a self-sufficient textile manufacturing center by planting mulberry trees for the cultivation of silk. Nevertheless, a number of factors during the following years contributed to the plan's ultimate failure. Nasi's aunt, Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi supported a yeshiva in the town for many years until her death in 1569.[133]

In 1567, a Yemenite scholar and Rabbi, Zechariah Dhahiri, visited Safed and wrote of his experiences in a book entitled Sefer Ha-Musar. His vivid descriptions of the town Safed and of Rabbi Joseph Karo's yeshiva are of primary importance to historians, seeing that they are a first-hand account of these places, and the only extant account which describes the yeshiva of the great Sephardic Rabbi, Joseph Karo.[134]

In 1576, the Jewish community of Safed faced an expulsion order: 1,000 prosperous families were to be deported to Cyprus, "for the good of the said island", with another 500 the following year.[135] The order was later rescinded due to the realisation of the financial gains of Jewish rental income.[136] In 1586, the Jews of Istanbul agreed to build a fortified khan to provide a refuge for Safed's Jews against "night bandits and armed thieves."[135]
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And it grew further
cont'd

In 1610, the Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue in Jerusalem was completed.[137] It became the main synagogue of the Sephardic Jews, the place where their chief rabbi was invested. The adjacent study hall which had been added by 1625 later became the Synagogue of Elijah the Prophet.[137]

In the 1648–1654 Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine over 100,000 Jews were massacred, leading to some migration to Israel. In 1660 (or 1662), the majorly Jewish towns of Safed and Tiberias are destroyed by the Druze, following a power struggle in Galilee.[138][139][140][141][142][143][144].....​
 
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And Palestine had reached 25% Jewish in the late 16th/early 17th Century.
....
Palestine had no Jews to speak of in the 16th or 17th century you idiot.
Formerly Wikipedia, now on many of it's Mirror Websites.
History of the Southern Levant

Ottoman Period 1517-1917

In 1516 the Ottoman Turks occupied Palestine.[14] The country became part of the Ottoman Empire. Constantinople appointed local governors. Public works, including the city walls, were rebuilt in Jerusalem by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1537. An area around Tiberias was given to Don Joseph HaNasi for a Jewish enclave.
Following the expulsions from Spain, the Jewish population of Palestine rose to around 25% (includes non-Ottoman citizens, excludes Bedouin) and regained its former stronghold of Eastern Galilee. That ended in 1660 when they were massacred at Safed and Jerusalem. During the reign of Dahar al Omar, Pasha of the Galilee, Jews from Ukraine began to resettle Tiberias.".."


That's what 100% Rebuttal looks like.
It's such a Monumental Misimpression/Fundamental error/LIE, Mont-al-cheeti should change his opinion of the conflict!
As I always say Cheeti...
You CANNOT Debate me.
Period.
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File:palestine-Mandate-Ensign-1927-1948.svg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

File: Palestine-Mandate-Ensign-1927-1948.svg

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The British Palestine "national" flag was the blue one :)

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Palestine had no Jews to speak of in the 16th or 17th century you idiot.
Wrong/Stupid/anti-semitic.. as usual

History of the Jews and Judaism in the Land of Israel - Wikipedia

"...The 16th-century nevertheless saw a resurgence of Jewish life in Palestine. Palestinian rabbis were instrumental producing a universally accepted manual of Jewish law and some of the most beautiful liturgical poems. Much of this activity occurred at Safed which had become a spiritual centre, a haven for mystics. Joseph Karo's comprehensive guide to Jewish law, the Shulchan Aruch, was considered so authoritative that the variant customs of German-Polish Jewry were merely added as supplement glosses.[125] Some of the most celebrated hymns were written in Safed by poets such as Israel Najara and Solomon Alkabetz.[126] The town was also a centre of Jewish mysticism, notable kabbalists included Moses Cordovero and the German-born Naphtali Hertz ben Jacob Elhanan.[127][ A new method of understanding the kabbalah was developed by Palestinian mystic Isaac Luria, and espoused by his student Chaim Vital. In Safed, the Jews developed a number of branches of trade, especially in grain, spices, textiles and dyeing.

In 1577, a Hebrew printing press was established in Safed. The 8,000 or 10,000 Jews in Safed in 1555 grew to 20,000 or 30,000 by the end of the century.

In around 1563, Joseph Nasi secured permission from Sultan Selim II to acquire Tiberias and seven surrounding villages to create a Jewish city-state. [130] He hoped that large numbers of Jewish refugees and Marranos would settle there, free from fear and oppression; indeed, the persecuted Jews of Cori, Italy, numbering about 200 souls, decided to emigrate to Tiberias.[131] Nasi had the walls of the town rebuilt by 1564 and attempted to turn it into a self-sufficient textile manufacturing center by planting mulberry trees for the cultivation of silk. Nevertheless, a number of factors during the following years contributed to the plan's ultimate failure. Nasi's aunt, Doña Gracia Mendes Nasi supported a yeshiva in the town for many years until her death in 1569.[133]

In 1567, a Yemenite scholar and Rabbi, Zechariah Dhahiri, visited Safed and wrote of his experiences in a book entitled Sefer Ha-Musar. His vivid descriptions of the town Safed and of Rabbi Joseph Karo's yeshiva are of primary importance to historians, seeing that they are a first-hand account of these places, and the only extant account which describes the yeshiva of the great Sephardic Rabbi, Joseph Karo.[134]

In 1576, the Jewish community of Safed faced an expulsion order: 1,000 prosperous families were to be deported to Cyprus, "for the good of the said island", with another 500 the following year.[135] The order was later rescinded due to the realisation of the financial gains of Jewish rental income.[136] In 1586, the Jews of Istanbul agreed to build a fortified khan to provide a refuge for Safed's Jews against "night bandits and armed thieves."[135]
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And it grew further
cont'd

In 1610, the Yochanan ben Zakai Synagogue in Jerusalem was completed.[137] It became the main synagogue of the Sephardic Jews, the place where their chief rabbi was invested. The adjacent study hall which had been added by 1625 later became the Synagogue of Elijah the Prophet.[137]

In the 1648–1654 Khmelnytsky Uprising in Ukraine over 100,000 Jews were massacred, leading to some migration to Israel. In 1660 (or 1662), the majorly Jewish towns of Safed and Tiberias are destroyed by the Druze, following a power struggle in Galilee.[138][139][140][141][142][143][144].....​

You are nuts. Do you think anyone believes the Hasbara edited Wiki entries regarding Jews and Zionism?

That's just Hasbara propaganda. There were hardly any Jews in Ottoman Palestine until the Zionist invasion. Those that practiced Judaism had converted to Christianity centuries before.
 
Mmm...not so much. Your argument is based on an ex-wikipedia article categorised as in "need of cleaning up" and "lacking reliable references from November 2008", without any supporting data presented History of the Southern Levant

The current Wikipedia article on the Demographic History of Palestine, Demographic history of Palestine (region) - Wikipedia goes into a lot more detail and is fully referenced.

This article completely contradicts your hypothesis of the Jewish population of the region being anywhere close to 25%. The data is clear that in terms of total population Jewish people comprised at best 3% in the 16th Century which dwindled to around 0.8% in the 17th century. The only parts of Palestine where there was a Jewish population anywhere close to your 25%, could be found in the cities of Tiberias (35% of total households registered) and Safad (28% of otal households registered).
 
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