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To: goldsnow who wrote (11389)	2/8/2002 4:18:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

I'm not sure what he's talking about, it's too garbled. Presumably his original theme of how the Zionists planned an ethnic cleansing of Palestine. It's rot like most of his stuff. The Zionists hoped to settle and rebuild the land. Their error was in paying little attention to the inhabitants, who were mostly tenant farmers or bedouin, and not in large numbers. Southern Syria (modern Israel) was sparsely populated in the late 19th century. The Zionist settlement brought a large influx of Arabs into their area of settlement, as well as increasing the population by introducing modern medicine and hygiene. The Muslim population of the Mandate (excl. Transjordan) rose from 250,000 to 1.2 million in 1880 - 1947. The Zionists did attempt not to hire Arab laborers as the flood of Arab immigrants to their areas was undoing their efforts to create a Jewish majority. Didn't work as the Arabs remained cheaper, though from the Arab viewpoint it was a big improvement over other options. The Zionist hope was to live peacefully with the local Arabs. The majority urged a policy of restraint even when Arab nationalist protests and marauding and terror began. The Revisionists said, you're kidding yourselves, they'll never agree -- we must put up an "iron wall" and convince them they can never get rid of us. Neither group supported ethnic cleansing. Aside from the moral reason, it would have been political suicide with the British, whose original Balfour Declaration had spoken of caring for the rights of the local population, and who were growing ever more eager to appease Arab interests.