The Truth About Arab Population In “Palestine” Before Israel’s Establishment!
The truth about Arab population in “Palestine” before Israel’s establishment! 🇮🇱
🔸1785: Constantine Francois Volney paints a bleak picture of Jerusalem, describing it as “ruined” and “desolate,” with a tiny population estimated at only 12,000 to 14,000 people struggling in what barely resembled a city.
🔸1843: Alexander Keith reflects on Volney’s observations, noting that even in Volney’s time, the land had not yet reached its ultimate state of prophetic desolation and depopulation, implying even greater emptiness was to come.
🔸1816: J.S. Buckingham’s travels reveal Jaffa as little more than a “poor village,” and Ramleh as mostly ruins, indicative of the broader state of decay and abandonment that characterized much of Palestine.
🔸1835: Alphonse de Lamartine recounts his stark encounter with Jerusalem, comparing its desolate state to the dead cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, experiencing an eerie silence and a complete absence of life both inside and outside its gates.
🔸1857: James Finn, the British consul, reports back to England about the extensive emptiness of the land, emphasizing a dire need for a population to fill the vast, uninhabited spaces of Palestine.
🔸1867: Mark Twain documents his journey in “The Innocents Abroad,” encountering no villages for thirty miles in any direction around the valley, describing Galilee, Judea, and the area around Jerusalem as barren deserts, devoid of any population and lamenting over a land that seemed cursed and hopelessly desolate.
🔸1881: Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, mapping the region, notes that miles and miles of Judea appeared completely devoid of life or habitation, reinforcing the narrative of an overwhelmingly vacant landscape.
🔸By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, comprising both Arabs and Jews, amounted to only 400,000, less than 3% of today’s population, highlighting the dramatic transformation and revival led by the establishment of Israel.
In 1945, West Bank was under Jordan, Gaza strip was under Egypt. Israel gained control of these regions during six days Israel-Arab war of 1967 but later dashed them out to Palestine. And that was the first time in history Palestinians were able to rule themselves. Israel practically gave them independence from Egypt and Jordan.
