A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 6)
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- A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem (ص 6)
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uprooted and ousted from its land after Israel has seized
its property. And since 1948 more than 1,200,000 of the
Arab people of Palestine have turned into refugees living
in camps and huts on donations from the United Nations.
D. The Palestinian Arabs remaining in Israel number
270,000 people living in « security zones » under martial
law.
II In order to have a complete picture of the trag-
edy of Palestine we should survey the main features of
the development of the Palestine problem since its occupa-
tien by Britain in 1917 until it was turned over, by the
Mandate Government, to the World Zionist Movement in
1948.
A. In 1917 the total population of Palestine num-
bered 700,000; 644,000 were Arabs, and the remaining
56,000 were Jews. In other words the number of the Jews
in Palestine before British occupation was less than one
tenth of the number of its Arab inhabitants.
B. The Arabs of Palestine at that time owned
974% of the land, while the Jewish minority owned only
24% of the land.
C. When Britain turned over the Palestine problem
to the United Nations, in 1947, the Jews owned no more
than 6% of the total land area of Palestine. In other - هو جزء من
- A Short Survey of the Palestine Problem
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- Darwazah, al-Ḥakam
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