What percentage of the area that is Israel today was made of Jews and Arabs in the 1800s?

Question

What percentage of the area that is Israel today was made of Jews and Arabs in the 1800s?

Answer 1

Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century until the British occupied it in the First World War . During the Ottoman rule the Jews were never allowed to settle in Palestine, because their ambitions were already known by the Turks . In fact the Turks declined all the offers from the Zionist movement to settle . The number of Jews they say was not more than 400 Jews only when the British came . And if you look at the number of Palestinians now inside and outside you will find that they are about 10 millions. more than half are refugees with temporary papers all over the world , this means that their numbers when the Jews came to Palasatine after WWI were actually in millions , but they were never counted until they were thrown out .

Answer 2

100 percent Jewish, Christian and Muslim Palestinians. The European zionists started to move into that area in the early- mid 1900's until they were able to take over the entire land in 1948 with the help of the British, after that they kicked the Palestinians out.

Answer 3

For most of the 1800s, about 4% of the population in the area that is Israel today was Jewish.  Starting around 1882, Jewish immigrants mostly from Russia raised the percent to about 8% by 1900.  That was for all of Palestine, which isn't all Israel today, but it the area that's now Israel was the more populated part so the figures are close.

Arabs can be Muslim, Christian, Jewish or a few other sects.  One should therefore say that the population was 100% Arab until Zionist immigrants started arriving after 1880 and the % went down to about 96% by 1900.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

A lot of Jews here are incredibly mistaken! The area was mostly Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Arabs, with the majority Muslim. This is fact and anyone who says otherwise is so in denial it is ridiculous. I am greatly disappointed in my people for such ignorance!

Answer 6

I'm not sure if you're asking this for political reasons or perhaps a school paper. You can find the stats easily enough online, perhaps check Wikipedia.

In the meantime, here is an eye witness account from the late 1800's:

"Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes.  Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... It is a hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land... [a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds - a silent mournful expanse... A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action...  We never saw a human being on the whole route...  There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere.  Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country..." -  Mark Twain (describing Palestine on a visit in 1867).

Answer 7

When Mark Twain visited the Holy Land in the 19th century, he was greatly disappointed. He didn't see any people. He referred to it as a vast wasteland. The land we now know as Israel was practically deserted.

This is very important to understand. Because one of the biggest demands of so-called Arab "Palestinians" today is the "right of return." They contend that millions and millions of Arabs must be permitted to settle in Israel with full voting rights. Most of these people have never set foot in Israel before. Many of their parents never set foot in Israel before. A few had lived in the area in 1948 or 1967 and fled at the instructions of Arab invaders who pledged to "liberate" the land and annihilate the Jews.

But it is important to understand these are not refugees in the usual sense of the word. Instead, they are political pawns, exploited by Arab leaders who use the refugee issue to empower and enrich themselves.

It is a fraud, however, to say that these Arab Palestinians had lived in the region "from time immemorial," as the propagandists say. When "Palestine" was under the control of Muslims – right up through World War I – Arabs and Muslims showed little interest in the land, including Jerusalem.

A travel guide to Palestine and Syria, published in 1906 by Karl Baedeker, illustrates the fact that, even when the Islamic Ottoman Empire ruled the region, the Muslim population in Jerusalem was minimal. The book estimates the total population of the city at 60,000, of whom 7,000 were Muslims, 13,000 were Christians and 40,000 were Jews.

"The number of Jews has greatly risen in the last few decades, in spite of the fact that they are forbidden to immigrate or to possess landed property," the book states.

Even though the Jews were persecuted, still they came to Jerusalem and represented the overwhelming majority of the population as early as 1906. And even though Muslims today claim Jerusalem as the third holiest site in Islam, when the city was under Islamic rule, they had little interest in it.

As the Jews came, drained the swamps and made the deserts bloom, something interesting began to happen. Arabs followed. I don't blame them. They had good reason to come. They came for jobs. They came for prosperity. They came for freedom. And they came in large numbers.

Winston Churchill observed in 1939: "So far from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population."

This is the modern real history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. At no time did the Jews uproot Arab families from their homes. When there were title deeds to be purchased, they bought them at inflated prices. When there were not, they worked the land so they could have a place to live without the persecution they faced throughout the world.

Answer 8

In the 19th century, Israel/Palestine was very thinly settled. There was very little agriculture, and extensive abandoned and uninhabited "waste" lands. Most of the population, such as it was, lived in dire poverty. Brigandage was such an established and accepted way of life that it was impossible to travel on the roads without the payment of large bribes to the leading men of each village along the way. The roads themselves were no more than unpaved footpaths. Villages fought wars with each other. Nomadic Bedouin tribes frequently raided villages and even larger towns. The inhabitants of the few larger towns (there were no real cities) had to cower behind thick walls and locked gates every night for security.

The Arab population of Israel/Palestine only began to grow in the late 19th and 20th centuries, at the same time that Jews began to resettle the land. Jewish immigrants brought with them modernized agriculture, including the growing of oranges, which had been previously unknown; a market for Arab agricultural goods; employment at Jewish farms and factories; modern hospitals and medicine that saved thousands of Arab lives; the draining of swamps that had caused thousands of deaths from malaria and other insect-born diseases; and vastly expanded Arab education funded by Jewish taxes.

The Arab population of Palestine has grown extensively, from under 500,000 in 1891 to over 3,600,000 today, partly because of increased life expectancy brought about by the economic and scientific progress introduced by Jewish immigrants/settlers, but also in part because of extensive immigration to Palestine from many Arab countries.

Answer 9

http://www.friendsofpalestine.org.au/ima...

This should help

Answer 10

100% of the area of Israel consisted of Jews (including West Bank, which is Judea and Samaria, Israel and Gaza strip) and was inhabited by Jews during that time frame. Israel has always had connection to the land going back thousands of years and the timeframe you mentioned is no different.

I do not know how much land mass was inhabited by Arabs they typically were in Gaza along with other Jews there and other smaller settlements.

I must note that 100% of land mass is now currently shared by Israeli Arabs as well as Israeli Jews.  During the war of '48 many Arabs willfully became Israeli citizens and continue to live peacefully side by side, some holding offices in gov't.

The mass populace that you see today of Arabs are because many were encouraged to come from neighboring countries during the pre-establishment of Israel to fight, and then fled to West Bank  at Arab's military orders.  They are not indigenous to Israel.  

Gaza strip is now 'mainly' comprised of people from Egypt and West Bank (Judea and Samaria) of people from Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan.

Of the Arab population today in all land mass I'd estimate it to be only 25-40% previously indigenous with the 40 percent probably being way too high.

During times of war, hostile incoming population is never considered to be indigenous no matter how long they are allowed to stay and fight.