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To: spiral3 who wrote (47518)	9/27/2002 7:37:35 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

spiral3, very intelligent and anatomically interesting post -g-. Regarding your "pissed off Serb's" remarks on the Mufti, most echo stuff I have seen before, certainly the Mufti raised troops and did his bit for ole Adolf. The Mufti also encouraged the killing of Jews wherever possible and turned in slackers who were ready to sell them for ransom instead (He was personally responsible for the death of 80,000 Jewish Rumanian children in this manner). The only figures that seemed high to me were the claim of 800,000 Arabs to 80,000 Jews in Palestine in WWI. The Jewish figure sounds about right but the Arab figure sounds high; most historians say about 600,000, which is in line with the first decent census taken in 1922 by the British. Arab population in Palestine, far from being a zero-sum game, rose as a result of Jewish economic development and British governance, due to a combination of rising birth rates, lower death rates, and heavy immigration. The population of Nablus (all Arab) rose 50% between 1922 and 1947; the Arab population of Haifa (mixed) tripled during the same period (and Haifa had been one of the larger Arab towns in 1922). I also fail to see how the Mufti could possibly have devoted himself to opposing the Mandate yet "preserving" Palestine; how can anyone preserve something that never existed before? To the Arabs, the British and French Mandates were arbitrary partitions of Syria.