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SOME FACTS ABOUT PALESTINE (ALSO KNOWN AS ISRAEL).

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In 1948 a group of Jewish immigrants to Palestine ethnically cleansed some 750,000 Palestinians from their homes. They stole their land, their businesses, their orchards, their citrus groves, their farms and their futures and forced them to live in tents in the desert on the borders of the newly created Israel. There most have remained for 50 years, although some of these were ethnically cleansed a second time when Israel stole the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.

SOME FACTS ABOUT PALESTINE.

SOME POPULATION FIGURES FOR MANDATE PALESTINE.

In 1880 there were	24,000	Jews living among	450,000	Palestinians.
In 1914 there were	56,000	Jews living among	715,000	Palestinians.
In 1922 there were	83,000	Jews living among	663,000	Palestinians.
In 1936 there were	385,400	Jews living among	983,200	Palestinians.
In 1940 there were	467,000	Jews living among	1,050,000	Palestinians.
In 1946 there were	600,000	Jews living among	1,300,000	Palestinians.

THINGS TO NOTE:

In 1880 Jews were ONLY 5.3% of the total population of Palestine (and had been this percentage of the population (or less) for more than a thousand years). In 1946 the Jewish population was almost entirely comprised of recent immigrants (people who had been in the country less than twenty years).

This group of recent immigrants were publicly claiming that the (entire) land belonged to them (apparently they believed that some god had given it to them). These wild claims made non-Jews who lived in Palestine (we will call them Palestinians) very nervous, especially since the Jews claimed to want an ethnically pure state.

These non-Jews were (very) afraid that they would be kicked out of any new entity that claimed to be a Jewish state.

SOME POPULATION FIGURES FOR ISRAEL AFTER THE GREAT JEWISH LAND GRAB OF 1948.

In 1948 there were	155,000	Palestinians living among	716,700	Jews.
In 1951 there were	173,000	Palestinians living among	1,577,000	Jews.

THINGS TO NOTE:

The fears of the non-Jews who lived in Palestine were well founded.

That in 1948 all but 155,000 of the 873,600 Palestinians living in the area that became Israel, were ethnically cleansed from the newly formed Jewish state.

This ethnic cleansing was extremely brutal (and has been well documented).

Quoting Naeim Giladi.

And I began to find out about the barbaric methods used to rid the fledgling state of as many Palestinians as possible. The world recoils today at the thought of bacteriological warfare, but Israel was probably the first to actually use it in the Middle East. In the 1948 war, Jewish forces would empty Arab villages of their populations, often by threats, sometimes by just gunning down a half-dozen unarmed Arabs as examples to the rest. To make sure the Arabs couldn't return to make a fresh life for themselves in these villages, the Israelis put typhus and dysentery bacteria into the water wells.

BEFORE 1948 THERE WERE 475 PALESTINIAN TOWNS AND VILLAGES IN PALESTINE.

SINCE THEN 385 OF THESE HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY ERASED FROM
THE FACE OF THE EARTH (USUALLY BULLDOZED), BY THE JEWS/ISRAELIS.
The houses, and property that was destroyed had been owned by those Palestinians killed, or forced to flee, by the barbaric tactics of the Jews. These destroyed towns and villages were rebuilt (with new Jewish names) as Jewish only towns and villages. The Palestinians who had been forced to leave were not allowed back. They were not even allowed back into the Jewish state, let alone back to their (now destroyed) towns and villages.

Many Christians support Israel, but they should realize that before the establishment of the Jewish state, Palestine was about 12% Christian (Israel is now about 2% Christian). They should also remember that the Palestinian Christians had lived in the area since about 300 AD (when Palestine was predominantly Christian) and that they shared the land with Moslems from about 700 AD to the creation of Israel, when they were kicked out along with the Moslems (by the Jews).

Palestine's Population During The Ottoman And The British Mandate Periods.
http://www.cactus48.com/truth.html
http://www.nimn.org/history/population.html
Listing and Map of Towns and Villages Ethnically Cleansed/Destroyed by the Jews.

And now lets examine the claim that the Jews bought all the land and thus "now owned it" and were thus "entitled" to ethnically cleanse Palestine.

IN 1880 THE JEWS OWNED APPROXIMATELY 0% OF THE LAND.
IN 1946 THE JEWS OWNED APPROXIMATELY 6% OF THE LAND.
And even this 6% (more precisely 6.66%) of the land is contested. Much of the land was bought from people who had registered the land in their name, but who did not in any sense own the land, but that is another story. The point is that owning 6% of the land (about 20% of the farmland) does not entitle a minority to claim the entire land (even if they claim that some god gave it to them).

Listing and Map of Land Ownership In Palestine As In 1947.

In all this the Jews just acted as a bunch of thieves and criminals.

For those interested, here are 1922-1938 population figures for Palestine (Arab-Jew breakdown).

Year	Arabs	Jews	Total
1922	668,258	83,790	752,048
1923	689,329	89,660	778,989
1924	710,017	94,945	804,962
1925	725,513	121,725	847,238
1926	748,862	149,500	898,362
1927	767,526	149,789	917,315
1928	784,295	151,656	935,951
1929	803,562	156,481	960,043
1930	827,763	164,796	992,559
1931	851,706	172,028	1,023,734
1932	872,079	180,793	1,052,872
1933	895,677	209,207	1,104,884
1934	917,458	253,700	1,171,158
1935	940,724	320,358	1,261,082
1936	966,035	370,483	1,336,518
1937	997,233	386,074	1,383,307
1938	1,018,811	399,808	1,418,619

These figures are from the UNISPAL website.

Here is a table was prepared by Israel Shahak concerning the destruction of Arab villages:

Destruction of Palestinian Arab Villages
Name of the District	Number of Villages
Name of the District	Before 1948	In 1988	Destroyed
Jerusalem	33	4	29
Bethlehem	7	0	7
Hebron	16	0	16
Jaffa	23	0	23
Ramle	31	0	31
Lydda	28	0	28
Jenin	8	4	4
Tulkarm	33	12	21
Haifa	43	8	35
Acre	52	32	20
Nazareth	26	20	6
Safad	75	7	68
Tiberias	26	3	23
Bisan	28	0	28
Gaza	46	0	46
Total	475	90	385

Shahak stresses that this documented list is incomplete because it is impossible to find numerous Arab communities and "tribes." Israeli official data characterize, for example, 44 Bedouin villages and towns as "tribes," to reduce, by census contrivance, the number of permanent Palestinian communities.

And here are some official estimates of the numbers of Palestinians ethnically cleansed by the Jews:

Source of Estimate	Number of Refugees	Date of Estimate	Reference
United States	875,000	1953	Ref. 1
British Govt	810,000	Feb 1949	Ref. 2
United Nations	726,000	Sept 1949	Ref. 3
"	957,000	May 1950	Ref. 3
Israeli Govt	520,000	1948	Ref. 4
Palestinian	780,000	end 1948	Ref. 5
"	744,150	mid 1948	Ref. 6
"	850,276	Nov 1952	Ref. 7

1 "The Problem of Arab Refugees from Palestine," U.S. Government Report of the Subcommittee on the Near East and Africa (Foreign Relations Committee, 24 July 1953).

2 PROFO371-754196 E2297/1821/31

3 United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine: Report of the UN Economic Survey Mission for the Middle East, UN Document A/AC.25/6, p. 18; Annual Report of the Director General of UNRWA, Director's Report, UN Document 5224/5223, 25 November 1952.

4 Morris, Benny, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1989, p. 297.

5 Khalidi, Walid et al., eds., All that Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948, 1992, Appendix III, p. 582.

6 Said, Edward et al., A Profile of the Palestinian People, Third Ed, 1990, p. 6; Abu-Lughod, Janet, "The Demographic Transformation of Palestine," in Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, ed., The Transformation of Palestine, 1971, pp. 139-63.

7 Hagopian, Edward and A.B. Zahlen, "Palestine's Arab Population," Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. III, Walid Khalidi et al., eds., 1974, pp. 32-73.

The following table lists the area of Palestine purchased by Jews by the end of the given year.

Year	Area (dunums)	Percentage of Palestine (26,323,000 dunums)
1882	22,500	0.1 %
1900	218,000	0.8 %
1914	418,000	1.6 %
1927	865,000	3.2 %
1936	1,231,000	4.7 %
1945	1,588,365	6.0 %
1947	1,734,000	6.6 %

Source of data: Granott, Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel, p. 28, and A Survey of Palestine (Volume 1 of 3), p. 244.

Note that: 1 dunum = 1,000 square meters = 0.1 hectare = 0.2471 acres, which is very close to one quarter acre.

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