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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: marcos who wrote (160817)4/21/2005 8:14:57 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Palestine was inhabited, but sparsely, in the 19th century. The kind of underpopulated backwater where it's hard to scratch a living and any kind of development is welcomed with open arms. In 1882, Palestine had about 300,000 people in it, plus or minus. Today, the same area has over 9 million.

In 1867 Mark Twain visited Jerusalem, and reported that it was the same size as an American village of 4000; he walked around it in an hour, he said.
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