Peter Baum@baum_p
FACT
Today’s Palestinians are descendants from Arab immigrants who came into Palestine mainly because of the economic benefits of Zionism . Documented evidence is in abundance
De Hass History - ‘ Todays Palestinians are immigrants from many nations , Balkans Greeks Syrians Latins Egyptian Turks Armenians Motawila Tartars Hungarians Bulgarians Syrians Persians Maronites and many others . The Muslims of Safed are descendants from Moorish settlers and from Kurds who settled earlier ‘
Encyclopaedia Brittanica 1911 - ‘ There are very large contingents from Mediterranean countries especially Armenia Greece , Turkomen settlers , a large Afghan colony ,Motawila and immigrants from Persia ,tribes of Kurds , Algerian and Sudanese , Bosnian and Circassian’
British Consul James Finn June 1860 ‘ I learn of the arrival of thousands of Beni Sukh Arabs at Tiberius who are never seen this side of the Jordan ‘
Palestine Royal Commission 1937 - ‘ This illegal Arab immigration was not only going on from the Sinai but also from Transjordan and Syria and it is very difficult to make a case for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going on to share that misery ‘
Winston Churchill 1939 - ‘ So far from being persecuted the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied until their population has increased more than all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population’
CG Smith Studies on Palestine - ‘ The Turkish forward policy included the planting of Circassian colonies in the country ‘
History of Palestine De Haas -Ibrahim Pasha , Egyptian conqueror of Palestine ‘ left behind him permanent colonies of Egyptians at Besian Nablus Irbid Acre and Jaffa ‘