DIRECTFLT wrote:The Evangelical View:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_MRZlNWW80In this special, Gordon Robertson examines the facts behind both the Jewish and Arab claims. Get the answers to the following questions:
Who are the Palestinians?
What are the so-called “1967 borders” of Israel?
Is the West Bank really “occupied territory”?
Do the Jews hold the legal right to the land of Israel?
DVD Bonus Feature: “The Refugees of 1948” looks at the origin of the Palestinian refugee problem and why it remains unsolved almost 70 years later.
That's a great example of disingenuous propaganda, but what would one expect to find from Pat Robertson's son? This is the kind of crap that the uneducated use to fill the void in their education (and is what would we expect from someone who claims that the world is 4,000 years old).
Let's simplify things by just going back to the time when the European Jewish infiltration of Palestine began: circa 1880. Here's what the population shift looked like from that era.
Palestine: Arab / Jewish Population (1860 - 1946)
These figures are taken from the historian and demographer, Justin McCarthy with the year 1919 provided by Alfred Lilienthal. Year. . # of Jews, #of "Arabs". . . Total . . . % Jews
1860 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411,000
1890 . . 25,000 . . . . . . . . . . . . 553,000
1900. . 25,000 . . . 520,000. . . 545,000. . . 4.587%
1914. . 60,000 . . . 731,000. . . 791,000. . . 7.585%
1918. . 59,000 . . . 688,000. . . 747,000. . . 7.898%
1919. . 65,000 Lilienthal
1922. . 83,790. . . 668,258. . . 752,048. . 11.141%
1931.. 174,606 . . 858,708. . 1,033,314. . 16.897%
1941.. 474,102 . 1,111,398. .1,585,500. . 29.902%
1944.. 554,000 . 1,211,000. .1,765,000. . 31.388%
1946.. 608,225 . 1,237,334. .1,845,559. . 32.956%
In the time frame shown here the Jewish population in the Levant went from 5% to 33% of the population. This was a planned, well organized and quite brutal takeover of a peaceful agrarian society.