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Actually, they "all were bussed in". > By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including bedo
by rangibaby 13y ago
Actually, they "all were bussed in".
> By 1948, the population had risen to 1,900,000, of whom 68% were Arabs, and 32% were Jews (UNSCOP report, including bedouin).
> According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, as of May 2006, of Israel's 7 million people, 77% were Jews, 18.5% Arabs, and 4.3% "others".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Palestine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Palestine
- Samuel_Michon 13y agoYour second figure doesn’t include Gaza and Judea & Samaria, while your first figure does. If you would include those areas, the percentage of Arabs in the area would be over 50%. Most people in historic Palestine, be they Jews or Arabs, can’t say their family lived there 100 hundred years a go, the population has grown twenty-fold in the last century. However, there have been Jews and Arabs in that region for thousands of years. It would be silly to deny that.
- rangibaby 13y agoOf course, on your second point. I think one way to peace would be for Israel to simply annex the occupied territories. It's preferable to the BS situation that exists now. Both Israelis and Palestinians have a right to (literally) the same land. I would like to see Israel extend it's democracy and rights to the Palestinians instead of putting them in open air jail (the West Bank wall reminds me of Escape from New York).