"Palestine 1920: The Other Side of the Palestinian Story | Al Jazeera World Documentary ... video"

In 1948 the world was told that Israeli settlers were occupying land that had never been cultivated, and had only a few native people living in the area.  This turned out to be a great deception.  This video will show that Palestine was a thriving nation where people cultivated the land, and also lived and worked in large cities.

"Ever since the founding of the Zionist movement,[1] supporters of Zionism have downplayed the fact that historic Palestine had always had a healthy indigenous population.  As early as the 19^th and early 20^th century,[2] Zionists and their supporters repeated the myth widely: “A land without a people, for a people without a land.”  While this slogan encouraged Jewish emigration to historic Palestine, it also paved the way for one of the largest dispossessions of an ethnic group in modern history.  Both the demographic statistics themselves, as well as the history of Jewish emigration to Palestine in the 1930s tell an entirely different story.   

"Demographics of Palestine under the Ottomans

Modern Zionism was a movement born in Europe in the 19^th century, but the Ottoman Empire controlled historic Palestine during the 19^th and early 20^th centuries.  Starting in the 19^th century, a number of disparate Jewish groups in Europe had begun cooperating to begin modest agricultural settlement in historic Palestine.  These and other groups first came together formally in 1897 for the first Zionist Conference in Basel, Switzerland.[3] 

The population of Ottoman “Palestine” is difficult to estimate because:

1) There was no administrative district of Palestine. Ottoman census figures were for various districts, e.g. the Jerusalem, Acco and Nablus districts. The Acre district included areas in Lebanon, outside the borders of historic Palestine;

2) Both Arabs and Jews avoided the Turkish census for three reasons: a) to avoid taxes, b) to avoid military conscription, and c) to avoid questions of illegal residence;

3) The census figures didn’t include Bedouins (likely numbering over 100,000[4]) and foreign subjects (i.e. individuals with foreign citizenship, without Ottoman residency status) of which there were about 10,000 Jews.

Nevertheless, the Ottoman census of 1878 indicated the following demographics for the Jerusalem, Nablus, and Acre districts:[5]"  Emphasis added.

Census Group	Population	Percentage
Muslim	403,795	85.5
Christian	43,659	9.2
Jewish	15,001	3.2
Jewish (Foreign-born)	Est. 10,000	2.1
Total:	472,455	100.0

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