Curval, sorry for my absence, my cable modem went down, and until tuesday I am on dial-up.
....what I was looking for was a population census of the region during those times. I don't know for a fact, but I have a feeling the figures will contradict your 1922 stats and show that there were probably very few ansestors of the current Palestinian population lived there.
Do you believe ncient claims outweigh modern ones?
Can I, as a Celt, claim land and ownership of England because I can prove my ancestors were there befoe the Angles and Saxons?
Can native Americans claim ownership because they can prove they owned the land before European settlers came?
No legal system in the world recognises ancient claims like this.
For several hundred years, the population of Palestine has been almost wholly Arab, although until 1918 they were occupied by the Ottoman Empire.
I have posted the first British census taken in 1922. However, look at more recent times. 1 settlement in the West Bank predates Israel's conquest of the area in 1967.
Some more figures:
Settler population of West Bank and Gaza:
1972: 1500
1991: 95,000
2001: approx 200,000
On average, 2,200 acres of Palestinian land is confiscated each month to build new settlements and expand existing ones.
Where there are mosques there are Musilm "settlements".
No, there are Muslims living under the laws of the land they have settled in. They have not set up fortified hilltop villages, and brought in an occupying army to enforce their will. They have not taken 75% of the water resources, and imposed curfews on neighbouring towns and villages. They do not have the right to carry automatic weapons, they do not carry out pogroms against the local population.
