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To: Ilaine who wrote (102872)	6/25/2003 5:01:02 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"Sparse" is how I would characterize the 200,000 or so towards the beginning of the 19th century. I said that immigration picked up around the turn of the (20th) century, but that most of the growth by immigration was during the Mandate. However, I have been reading and mulling over the matter, and it does rest on so many assumptions and unreliable census figures that I would prefer to withdraw it as a point, at least for now. It is too ambiguous to be useful. I do not have the confidence in the text I relied upon that I had had, and I want to study the matter.........

To: Ilaine who wrote (102872)	6/25/2003 5:30:54 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If you can prove that the population growth was due to immigration and not birth, please do so. It looks like normal population growth to me. 400,000 to 600,000 in 25 years is a rather sharp population growth CB, for a population that was still mostly living in rather primitive conditions without modern hygiene or medicine. Since neither the British or the Ottomans counting Arab immigrants into Palestine, the evidence for large immigration is mostly anecdotal, but it's there. Nor are the reasons for it hard to find - economic development in Palestine was making jobs available that simply didn't exist in other parts of Syria or Egypt. There are many stories of Arab farmers letting their farms to a tenant, and going to work for the Jews, since it paid better.