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To: thames_sider who wrote (9609)	4/18/2002 9:31:33 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

No doubt, there were always plenty of Arabs, and they outnumbered the relatively small communities of Jewish scholars that settled in the Holy Land. I am only noting that the place was sparsely populated in the early 19th century, and grew in both populations during that century. Also, they did not all settle in the territory partitioned to become Israel (remember, Palestine used to include Jordan). Finally, you are quite right, 120 years is generally considered sufficient. However, at the time of independence, the territory partitioned as Israel had a Jewish majority, formed under accepted rules of emigration, that had not illegally expropriated anyone, and had, in fact, developed much of the land, both through kibbutzim and other capital investment. The analogy here would be Texas, which was Mexican, but became predominantly Anglo due to emigration, and then declared independence........