The war has been on since the day these infidels arrived in the holy land
Who were the colonists? Ah, the Jewish invaders who murdered many of the population and stole everything they could.
I can see why the Arabs don't want such people in their country.
Jews were living and more were coming back to join their brethern in their ancestral and religious homeland, Muslims were the invaders and "colonialists" trying to establish yet another Islamic terrorist shithole caliphate.
So Arab's- Christian and Muslim- who had been living in the area for 700 years you consider to be invaders.
While Jews whose ancestors lived in Israel maybe 1400 years before- and had not lived in Israel for 1400 years were just heading home?
Well that is lovely revisionist history.
Back to the OP- 20% of the population of Israel are Arab- and they are about 91% Muslim and 9% Christian.
For the most part- the Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel live together peacefully.
And who told you that? Jews had always maintained strong presence in Israel, and especially during the Ottoman Empire were invited by the Ottomans starting in the 1400's to take refuge there during the crusades and inquisitions. Jewish populations increased and Jewish life started to flourish once again, culminating to a Jewish majority in Jerusalem in the 1850's. This is not revisionist history, it is fact. Jews have a right to have their own state, especially on their ancestral and religious homeland.
Strong presence eh.
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.
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."
The war has been on since the day these infidels arrived in the holy land
Who were the colonists? Ah, the Jewish invaders who murdered many of the population and stole everything they could.
I can see why the Arabs don't want such people in their country.
Jews were living and more were coming back to join their brethern in their ancestral and religious homeland, Muslims were the invaders and "colonialists" trying to establish yet another Islamic terrorist shithole caliphate.
So Arab's- Christian and Muslim- who had been living in the area for 700 years you consider to be invaders.
While Jews whose ancestors lived in Israel maybe 1400 years before- and had not lived in Israel for 1400 years were just heading home?
Well that is lovely revisionist history.
Back to the OP- 20% of the population of Israel are Arab- and they are about 91% Muslim and 9% Christian.
For the most part- the Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel live together peacefully.
And who told you that? Jews had always maintained strong presence in Israel, and especially during the Ottoman Empire were invited by the Ottomans starting in the 1400's to take refuge there during the crusades and inquisitions. Jewish populations increased and Jewish life started to flourish once again, culminating to a Jewish majority in Jerusalem in the 1850's. This is not revisionist history, it is fact. Jews have a right to have their own state, especially on their ancestral and religious homeland.
Yeah, strong presence. The land is ancient Jewish ancestral and religious holy land. They kept coming back and resettling, always.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA Jerusalem After 1291
"...Present condition of the City: (1907 edition)
Jerusalem (El Quds) is the capital of a sanjak and the seat of a mutasarrif directly dependent on the Sublime Porte. In the administration of the sanjak the mutasarrif is assisted by a council called majlis ida ra; the city has a municipal government (majlis baladiye) presided over by a mayor. The total population is estimated at 66,000.
The Turkish census of 1905, which counts only Ottoman subjects, gives these figures:
Jews, 45,000; Moslems, 8,000; Orthodox Christians, 6000;Latins, 2500; Armenians, 950; Protestants, 800; Melkites, 250; Copts, 150; Abyssinians, 100; Jacobites, 100; Catholic Syrians, 50. During the Nineteenth century large suburbs to the north and east have grown up, chiefly for the use of the Jews. These suburbs contain nearly Half the present population...""
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Growth of Jerusalem 1838-Present
....... Jews Muslims Christians Total
1838 6,000 5,000 3,000 14,000
1844 7,120 5,760 3,390 16,270 ..... ..The First Official Ottoman Census
1876 12,000 7,560 5,470 25,030 .... .....Second """"""""""
1905 40,000 8,000 10,900 58,900 ....... Third/last, detailed in CathEncyc above
1948 99,320 36,680 31,300 167,300
1990 353,200 124,200 14,000 491,400
1992 385,000 150,000 15,000 550,000
http://www.testimony-magazine.org/jerusalem/bring.htm