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| The Truth About Palestinian Immigration |
| 2011-12-16 |
| h/t Gates of Vienna Writing in Israel Hayom yesterday, Yoram Ettinger supported Newt Gingrich's statement that Palestinians are an "invented" people by offering statistics to show that far from having lived in the Holy Land for millennia, most Palestinians descend from immigrants who came from throughout the Muslim world between 1845 and 1947. Simon Sebag Montefiore provides similar data in his new book, Jerusalem: The Biography, as a New York Times reviewer noted: From 1919-38, for instance, 343,000 Jews and 419,000 Arabs immigrated to the area, The disparity of numbers is because the British did everything they could to hamper Jewish immigration while encouraging Arab One might ask why this should matter: Regardless of when either Jews or Palestinians arrived, millions of both live east of the Jordan River today, and that's the reality policymakers must deal with. But in truth, it matters greatly -- because Western support for Palestinian negotiating positions stems uses an excuse largely from the widespread view that Palestinians are an indigenous people whose land was stolen by Western (Jewish) interlopers. |
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