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Originally Posted by Happy Times
What was the area of Israel before the Jewish started to move back? A feudal culture with some dirtpoor peasants growing almondtrees and herding sheep. Some Mufti in Damascus or Kairo took their share of the small profits.
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About 600.000 Arabs according to the first British census around 1920 in the whole of Palestine (incl. West Bank & Gaza Strip); which means that the land was
practically empty, apart from a few cities.
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Originally Posted by Happy Times
Then came the "evil" zionists and bought the crabbiest land from the land owners with overprize. The arabs thought they wouldn last long. But they did well with their irrigation and modern agriculture.
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Not many know that the Zionistic agricultural activities created an
immigration of poor Arab peasants to Palestine of 60.000 (10%) between 1920 and 1930. That was allowed by Britain (the colonial power) but in the same period Britain imposed immigration rules to keep the Jewish population artificially low. Otherwise there would have been a Jewish majority in Paslestine in the late '30s...