Most interesting part is at the end of the post.. #palestine In 1881, Muslims made up about 86.6% of the population, Christians were about 9.1% of the population, and 2.8-4.3% of the population were indigenous, non-Zionist Jews. By 1947, The huge number of Jewish immigrants to Palestine brought the percentage of Jewish inhabitants of the Holy Land to almost 33%, while Muslims now only made up 58% of the population and Christians only 7.9%. Still, in 1948, the Jewish population only owned approximately 5.6% of the land. ****In 1947, the United Nations partitioned Palestine into two states, giving the Jewish population 55% of the land. Fighting broke out, and by 1949, 804,767 Palestinian Muslims and Christians had been expelled or had fled from their homes. Israel had taken over an additional 23% of Palestine, leaving the indigenous Arabs with only 22% of their historic homeland.**** Today, the state of Israel is 80.1% Jewish, including Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem, and Golan Heights (only 20.8% of this Jewish population is Israel-born), 14.6% Muslim, 2.1% Christian, and 3.2% are of other religions. ****The birthrate of non-Jews is higher than that of Jews, leading some Zionists to look for solutions to the so-called “demographic threat” posed by Arab citizens to the Jewish state.****
Posted on: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 00:17:48 +0000
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