montelatici
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Muslim Palestine?
Predominately Muslim Palestine, correct. Muslims were about 80% of the population when the European Jews began settling in Palestine in the mid 1800s, Christians were about 20%
Hmmm. 80 + 20 = 100%. So you're saying only Christians and Muslims lived in what is now Israel? Interesting camel crap which says far more about your veracity than it does about the demographics.![]()
I try to study and use source documents so the information is unimpeachable. I stay away from the propaganda that most of you believe. I guess you will have to eat camel crap. You really should do some research before you open you post nonsense. As you can see the demographics I posted that you questioned are fact.
From the UN archives:
AN INTERIM REPORT ON THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF PALESTINE, during the period 1st JULY, 1920--30th JUNE, 1921. AN INTERIM REPORT ON THE CIVIL ADMINISTRATION OF PALESTINE.
".......There are now in the whole of Palestine hardly 700,000 people, a population much less than that of the province of Gallilee alone in the time of Christ.* (*See Sir George Adam Smith "Historical Geography of the Holy Land", Chap. 20.) Of these 235,000 live in the larger towns, 465,000 in the smaller towns and villages. Four-fifths of the whole population are Moslems. A small proportion of these are Bedouin Arabs; the remainder, although they speak Arabic and are termed Arabs, are largely of mixed race. Some 77,000 of the population are Christians, in large majority belonging to the Orthodox Church, and speaking Arabic. The minority are members of the Latin or of the Uniate Greek Catholic Church, or--a small number--are Protestants.......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. "
- See more at: Mandate for Palestine - Interim report of the Mandatory to the League of Nations/Balfour Declaration text (30 July 1921)