▲ | dotancohen 12 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
▲ | throw310822 12 hours ago | parent [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> This isn't Reddit. Many people here actually do read sources. Exactly. The Ottoman rule of Palestine spans 400 years, and the graph at the top of the page you linked shows that Jews became a majority in Jerusalem only at the very end of it, following zionist immigration at the end of the 19th century. > The UN designated the malaria-infested marshes Israeli (not Jewish) The problem is that this isn't reddit and people actually read the sources. This is the text of the Partition Plan: "Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence..." | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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