Helloplite said:
Aeolus451 said: Israel is there to stay and Jerusalem is their capital. End of story. |
Demographics from 1517 have the Israelis at a measly 1.7% of Jerusalem's total population. Centuries later , 1918 records show the population of Jerusalem to be almost 91.9% Palestinian. Israelis numbered 60,000 out of 660,000 citizens. In 1946 Israelis were approximately 30% of Jerusalem's population and by 1948 they somehow became the majority at 82.1% in the space of two years.
Such violent population shifts do not happen peacefully. Nor do they portray an "end of story" situation. Palestinians are being displaced or exterminated for nearly 70 years already. This is not anti-Semitism. Yes the situation is complex. Yes Palestinian resistance is hardly benign. Yes they commit regular acts of terrorism. Nothing is simple in politics.
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This is almost 100% wrong. Jews were a majority in Jerusalem starting at a certain period sometime in the 19th century. How early or late in the 19th century is up for dispute, but there is no dispute whatsoever that Jews were a majority in Jerusalem by 1918. If you mean the entire land of Israel/Palestine instead of Jerusalem, then you might have a point. But for Jerusalem your figures are garbage.
As for the overall population shifts, while there was definitely violence, it was instigated each time by the Arab side. The 1920 pogroms caused the formation of the Hagganah and the 1929 massacres, including the destruction of the 3,000 year old Jewish community of Hebron, caused the formation of the Irgun. That's not to say they didn't have a right to protest immigration policies, but had there been no Arab violence, there would have been no counter-violence and no refugees.
And during the period of the British Mandate, the Arab population itself doubled from around 600,000 to 1.2 million.