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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (4591)	9/25/2001 2:41:32 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

You are in serious denial about how the land in America came to be settled. Also, your history of how Palestine came to be settled since 1880 is far from the facts. The Yishuv bought 9% of the land. 71% of the land was state owned. This was largely owing to the very large tracts of abandoned land, dating from Ottoman times. Palestine in the 19th century was so badly ruled that many of the peasants were forced into nomadcy by the extortion and usury to which they were subjected. In 1880 all of Palestine west of the Jordan had 200,000 Muslims, perhaps 100,000 more Jews & Christians (the Ottomans didn't count non-Muslims well). By 1948 the same area had about 1.2 million Muslims. This is obviously not the result of natural increase. The British, who ruled Palestine from 1918 to 1948, stringently limited Jewish immigration (just when it might have saved millions), while winking at a very large Arab immigration (attracted by jobs). So maybe you object that the Jews should have a state anywhere. But let's not hear so much about "those who had lived in the region for centuries". Indeed they had, all over Syria, Jordan and Egypt, as well as the relative few who lived in Palestine. All those other countries all still there, with 200 time more land than the State of Israel.