Book of Jeremiah
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After it has been debunked, surely you do not subscribe to the bogus notion that Palestine was empty land before the European Zionist settlement in the late nineteenth early twentieth century.Hasbara was founded in 2001. Innocents Abroad was published in 1869. Your suggestion is quite impossible. Grasping at straws requires a straw to in fact be in existence. Check your dates the next time. No cigar for you....Mark Twain said Israel was like a barren wasteland when he visited, void of human beings, vegetation, life. It wasn't until the Jews returned that everything was restored to its former beauty. Once the Arabs saw the Jews return and make the land beautiful it suddenly become theirs as if they ever had a claim to it. They do not...
Got to ask, have you ever read "Innocents Abroad"? Probably not, otherwise you'd have come across the descriptions the Zionist Hasbara department leaves out, “The narrow canon in which Nablous, or Shechem, is situated, is under high cultivation, and the soil is exceedingly black and fertile. It is well watered, and its affluent vegetation gains effect by contrast with the barren hills that tower on either side” or “Sometimes, in the glens, we came upon luxuriant orchards of figs, apricots, pomegranates, and such things, but oftener the scenery was rugged, mountainous, verdureless and forbidding” or
“We came finally to the noble grove of orange-trees in which the Oriental city of Jaffa lies buried”, amongst others. This was in 1867, 15 years before the first European Jewish settlers arrived en masse in 1882. Another thing tha Hasbara department omits is the fact that 90% of these settlers left before accomplishing anything of note. Zionist epic fail number1
What suggestion is that, pray tell? The fact that the Hasbara department cherry-picks Mark Twain's book about his journey in 1867 which was published in 1869 in order to provide a false picture of Palestine to promote the myth that the Zionists "made the desert bloom"? Or are you just talking out of your posterior again?
Even with those couple of left-out sentences, the majority of Twain's description of Palestine is that of a forgotten wasteland. So what if a couple of places were in bloom? Any people who aren't totally retarded could have a couple of gardens here and there.
Who is native to Israel's land? Is it really the Arabs, who claim to be? Or is that just fiction? When did the Arabs settle in Israel? Do they go back to time immemorial, the way it is heard over and over in the media?
Adriani Relandi 1696 is one of the many who traveled the land and wrote about what was in the area, as did many others(all report the same findings):
Siebald Rieter,Johann Tucker, Arnold Van Harff ,Father Michael Nuad, Martin Kabatnik,Felix Fabri, Count Constantine Francois Volney,Alphonse de Lamartine, Mark Twain,Sir George Gawler, Sir George Adam Smith,Edward Robinson - found Palestine virtually empty, except for Jewish communities in Jerusalem, Safed, Shechem, Hebron,Gaza,Ramleh,Acre, Sidon, Tyre, Haifa, Irsuf, Caesarea, and El Arish, and throughout Galilee towns - Kfar Alma, Ein Zeitim, Biria, Pekiin, Kfar Hanania, Kfar Kana, Kfar Yassif.
To stay, these Jews had submitted to innumerable conquerors, taxes, pogroms and degradation. But they stayed. In 1799, Palestine was still so much in need of people that Napoleon Bonaparte championed a full-scale return of Jews.
"The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil". British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700's
"Palestine is a ruined and desolate land". Count Constantine François Volney, XVIII century French author and historian
"The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population". James Finn, British Consul in 1857
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"Palaestina ex monumentis veteribus illustrata" - a detailed geographical survey of Palestine in 1696 written in Latin by Adriaan Reland published by Willem Broedelet, Utrecht, in 1714.
Residents of the country mainly concentrated in cities: Jerusalem, Acre, Safed, Jaffa, Tiberias and Gaza.
In most cities, the majority of residents are Christians, Jews and others, very few Muslims who generally are Bedouin, seasonal workers who came to serve as Seasonal workers in agriculture or building. v v
Nablus: 120 muslims, 70 Samaritans
Nazareth: 700 people - all Christians
Umm al-Fahm: 50 people-10 families, ALL Christian
Gaza: 550 people- 300 Jews,250 Christian(Jews engaged in agriculture ,Christians deal with the trading and transporting the products)
Tiberias: 300 residents, all Jews.
Safed: about 200 inhabitants, all Jews
Jerusalem :5000 people,most of them (3,500) Jews,the rest - Christian (1000) Muslim (500)
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So how have the Arabs gotten away with claiming they were the native inhabitants of the land, even of Jerusalem when in fact there were very few Arab Nomads seen anywhere in the vicinity?
We've seen Mark Twain's observation and it coincides with what these men had to say too. Doesn't it?
In 1799, Palestine was still so much in need of people that Napoleon Bonaparte championed a full-scale return of Jews.
"The land in Palestine is lacking in people to till its fertile soil". British archaeologist Thomas Shaw, mid-1700's
"Palestine is a ruined and desolate land". Count Constantine François Volney, XVIII century French author and historian
"The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population". James Finn, British Consul in 1857.
Out of the mouths of two or three witnesses we see the matter established......... although in this particular case we have over a dozen eye witnesses all confirming Mark Twain's account .....