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To: tejek who wrote (380499)	4/26/2008 8:16:17 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573811

And just for the record, there were hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in Palestine in the late 19th century... How do you know? You are just guessing. Actually nobody knows that for various reasons. But come with a link - and I'll come with another link showing vastly different figures. Taro

To: tejek who wrote (380499)	4/26/2008 10:31:57 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573811

Dang, you are uninformed......the Palestinians were ranchers and farmers....the land was in heavy use. How do you think the Zionists duped them.........had they been sophisticated city folk, the Zionists would never have gotten away with what they did. And just for the record, there were hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in Palestine in the late 19th century even as the first Zionists began to emigrate to Palestine. This is the Arafat line -- an absolute lie -- "The Jewish invasion began in 1881... Palestine was then a verdant area, inhabited mainly by an Arab people in the course of building its life and dynamically enriching its indigenous culture". These remarks are inconsistent with those of contemporaneous observers. For example, Mark Twain wrote of his 1867 visit to Palestine: "There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent--not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride ten miles, hereabouts, and not see ten human beings". "... A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action ... we reached Tabor safely ... We never saw a human being on the whole route." "Jericho the accursed lies a moldering ruin today, even as Joshua's miracle left it more than three thousand years ago. [Bethlehem], the hallowed spot where the shepherds watched their flocks by night ... is untenanted by any living creature." And, finally, "Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes ... is desolate and unlovely ... a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land." Twains remarks were confirmed 15 years later by English cartographer Arthur Penrhyn Stanley: "In Judea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there was no appearance of life or habitation." There were Arabs living in Palestine at this time, but they numbered less than 400,000. Even after the end of WWI, there were fewer than 1.6M living on both banks of the Jordan and in Western Palestine, combined. Consider that the land we're talking about is less than 1/500ths of the land occupied by the Arabs as their "homeland". To argue that carving out a homeland for the Jews on this tiny speck of land somehow created a hardship for the Palestinians is simply ill-informed and wrong-headed. One has to really work overtime to reach this conclusion. As usual, you just don't have a clue WTF you're talking about.