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Re: Poll: Majority Palestinians See Israel's Elimination as Goal
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 25 Jun 2002 16:30:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Scott Arthur writes:
> > A History lesson is obviously needed here.
>
> Do you mean revisionist history? ;-)
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> > 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.
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> Do have any data which proves this? I would be interested to see it as it
> would mean that this is all wrong:
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> Estimated Population of Palestine 1870-1946
> Arabs (%) Jews (%) Total
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> 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
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 of 'ours' and 'not ours' are
only concept for peacetime, and during war they lose all their meaning."
Ben-Gurion planned to used the conquered land to raise some cash:
"Our army will conquer the Negev, will take the land into its hands and will
sell it to the JNF [Jewish National Fund] at 20-25 Palestinian pounds per
dunam. And there is a source . . . of millions…"
Scott A
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