Middle East Conflict

No way Israel allows this to happen as it will showcase their bullshit to the world:

 
Whilst the arguments about the past are interesting they actually move us on to a unified position

Can we all agree that both sides are lead by people who have interest in peaceful coexistence?

Can we agree that a solution needs to found for the plight of the Palestinians?

That sooner or later this is going to blow up into a regional war that will be damaging not only to the people who live there but to the Western way of life ?
 
There is plenty of first-hand evidence that the place was sparsely populated in the mid-19th century, and largely uncultivated. But the Jews were in the minority and were probably largely religious communities in Jerusalem and Safed (in the Galilee).
The population of Ottoman Palestine is difficult to estimate because:

1) There was no administrative district of Palestine. Ottoman census figures were for various districts, e.g. the Jerusalem, Acco and Nablus districts. The Acre district included areas in Lebanon, outside the borders of historic Palestine;

2) Both Arabs and Jews avoided the Turkish census for three reasons: a) to avoid taxes, b) to avoid military conscription, and c) to avoid questions of illegal residence;

3) The census figures didn’t include Bedouins (likely numbering over 100,000) and foreign subjects (i.e. individuals with foreign citizenship, without Ottoman residency status) of which there were about 10,000 Jews.

Nevertheless, the Ottoman census of 1878 indicated the following demographics for the Jerusalem, Nablus, and Acre districts:

Census GroupPopulationPercentage
Muslim403,79585.5
Christian43,6599.2
Jewish15,0013.2
Jewish (Foreign-born)Est. 10,0002.1
Total:472,455100.0

Yeah very “sparse”.
 

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