[denfurb]

Here is a non-biased view of "Palestine" before it became Israel. From what he writes, there were hardly any people there. Jerusalem's population approx 14K

[happygrl]

Author unknown: this is Chuck Missler's site. he may have written this article.

[Ziva]

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[Irene Adler]

There is a book available on Amazon called From Time Immemorial (think that's the title) which uses British census documents from the British mandate times following WWI and other original sources to make pretty much the same point as Twain did.