We've already established that the number was true when Einstein was a baby (about 3% of the population of Palestine was Jewish in 1879). You're pointing to la

We've already established that the number was true when Einstein was a baby (about 3% of the population of Palestine was Jewish in 1879). You're pointing to later figures on the number of Jews in Palestine to argue that the native Jewish population was substantially larger. The problem there is that you're considering European Jews who had just recently immigrated to Palestine (or at best, who were born to European parents) to be part of the "native" population. The basic conflict in 1948 was between an overwhelmingly Arab native population and a European Jewish population. There was also a tiny Jewish population with mich deeper roots in Palestine, but they were actually very skeptical of Zionism.