--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 7/26/06 4:42:24 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > And lived there for some 2000 years. > > > > What about the Palestinian Arabs and Christians who were originally Jewish > whose families > lived there for all of that time also? > > > > There were not many people living in the Palestinian territory now known as > Israel until Jews started migrating there in the late 1800's. Population was > very sparse since it was pretty much a wasteland. Mainly Bedouin tribes men > moving in and out to graze their goats never actually settling the land. I > had > mentioned a quote from Mark Twain earlier when he traveled through the > region and said it was vast wasteland with very few people living there. >
700,000 Arabs displaced according to some. That's likely far more than were displaced in the original Jewish diaspora. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
