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Re: Poll: Majority Palestinians See Israel's Elimination as Goal
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Thu, 20 Jun 2002 09:47:14 GMT
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> A History lesson is obviously needed here.

Do you mean revisionist history? ;-)

> After World War 2 the newly founded
> United Nations decided to create a Jewish State so they would never be
> subjected to a holocaust again.  The plot of land they choose had an ethnic
> majority of Jews living on it since at least World War 1.

Do have any data which proves this? I would be interested to see it as it
would mean that this is all wrong:

Estimated Population of Palestine 1870-1946
         Arabs (%)        Jews (%)       Total

1870    367,224 (98%)    7,000 (2%)      375,000
1893    469,000 (98%)   10,000 (2%)      497,000
1912    525,000 (93%)   40,000 (6%)      565,000
1920    542,000 (90%)   61,000 (10%)     603,000
1925    598,000 (83%)  120,000 (17%)     719,000
1930    763,000 (82%)  165,000 (18%)     928,000
1935    886,000 (71%)  355,000 (29%)   1,241,000
1940  1,014,000 (69%)  463,000 (31%)   1,478,000
1946  1,237,000 (65%)  608,000 (35%)   1,845,000


> The surrounding Arab
> countries, in an atempt to convince the U.N. not to create the country there,
> sent thousands of people to settle in the land.  The U.N. ignored this ruse to
> show an Arab ethnic majority and created Israel anyway. At this point the Arab
> countries forced their Jewish citizens into the newly founded country. Most
> Arabs who had been sent there, fled Israel of their own accord. The very same
> Arab leaders who sent them, refused to let them back into their 'historical'
> homes and herded them into refugee camps. This was done so they could easily
> 'reclaim' the land when the Israelis were removed from it.

That is all very interesting, but it does not asnswer the questions I asked.

Scott A

> 
> -Mike Petrucelli



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(...) I read a couple of quotes the other day that I thought made a great postscript to this post: In early '48 it was questioned why Israel had no land in the Jerusalem area, this was Ben-Gurion's answer: "The war will give us the land. The concept (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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(...) called (...) the (...) many (...) there (...) Palestine (...) A History lesson is obviously needed here. After World War 2 the newly founded United Nations decided to create a Jewish State so they would never be subjected to a holocaust again. (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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