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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: Cogito who wrote (78058)7/14/2006 1:06:33 PM
From: Nadine CarrollRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
But there were virtually no Jews living in what is now Israel for a couple of thousand years, up until the 1920s, when the Zionist movement started to get into full swing and they started to move there.


That is not true. There have been Jews in Israel continuously, just as a minority. Jerusalem has had a Jewish majority or plurality since the 18th century.

The Zionist movement started in earnest in the 1880s. Tel Aviv was founded in 1906, so your dates are a little off.

Until 1948, the Zionists purchased every piece of land they settled. Since most of it was wasteland, the owners were delighted to find somebody to buy it.

You also have to remember that 80% of Palestine has been state owned since Ottoman times. Large tracts of land were abandoned as a consequence of Ottoman misrule.
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