[Freeleesy]

Thanks David.

[Petrosius]

I am sorry, but this article avoids the main question: what was the population of the territory of the Palestinian Mandate? Looking at the population figures we find the following:

Year	Jews	Christians	Muslims	Total
1800	7000	22,000	246,000	275,000
1890	43,000	52,000	432,000	532,000
1914	94,000	70,000	545,000	689,000
1922	84,000	71,000	589,000	752,000
1931	175,000	89,000	760,000	1,033,000
1947	630,000	143,000	1,181,000	1,970,000

Even without being a distinct nationality from the other surrounding Arabs, the Arabs in Palestine have the same rights as the Jewish population in the area. The existence, or non-existence, of a "Palestinian nation" is not the issue. This is just legalism. One may truly regret it, but this land has had a Muslim/Arab majority since the end of the 12th century. This is not "anti-Zionist" propaganda but just demographic history.

[SJackson]

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Good article. Much of it posted here in the past but nice to have in one place. I'd add that the Palestine football team invited Arabs to participate but they refused. And then there's the Palestine Post, later renamed Jerusalem Post, hardly an Arab paper. And the Anglo-Palestine Bank, renamed Bank Leumi.