▲ | throw310822 12 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Jerusalem was Jewish majority in the time of the Ottoman Empire [1] (Links a page that shows the exact opposite) > If one were to call Britain White Man's Land and start a terror campaign against African, Asian, and Arab immigrants, would the world community accept that? Isn't that exactly what happened, i.e. Israel declared half of the land "Jewish land" and proceeded to ethnically cleanse 800 thousand palestinians with whom they had been living side by side in the previous decades? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | dotancohen 12 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources. All the censuses in the decades before the fall of the Ottoman empire show a Jewish majority. And for the century preceding that, the censuses flipped back and forth.
No. The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish) and the majority of the rest Arab (not Muslim, not Palestinian, and not Egyptian or Jordanian). The Arab states rejected this, and opened a war with the newly formed Israel. Many Israeli leaders pleaded with the Arab residents not to heed the Arab states' calls to evacuate. The situation in Haifa is well documented, I know this from living with Arabs in Haifa two decades ago. They tell how the Haifa mayor pleaded with their families to remain in 1948. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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