After the last great Jewish rebellion was put down by Rome in 138 CE (AD), the victorious Roman Emperor Hadrian attempted to diminish Judean ties to its own land. Hadrian renamed Judea (Judah/Israel) as- Palestine. The majority Jewish population of Palestine's residents (aka"Judeans") ,post-rebellion, became de facto-"Palestinians".

Though heavily persecuted and largely dispersed from "their homeland", a continuous Jewish presence still populated (Judah/Israel)Palestine throughout the following two millennia. By the mid19th century, Palestine had become a sparsely populated wasteland, which had reverted to mostly desert and swampland under generations of Arab rule. From about 1870, European Jewish philanthropy developed jobs and industry in Palestine. According to the Turkish census of 1893; Palestine's population was divided equally between Jews and Arabs (roughly 60 thousand each), with 30 thousand non-Arab or Non -Jew. The advent of new Jewish-developed industry and jobs was followed by a flood of persecuted Arabs. They fled neighboring countries for greater opportunity and a better life, swelling the Arab Palestinian population. At the same time, Jewish immigration was virtually blocked by consecutive Turkish and British authority in Palestine.

Palestine- in "the 1931 census, at least 23 different languages were reported in use by "Moslems"…the non-Jews in Palestine in 1931 listed as their "birthplaces" at least 24 different countries,"- J. Peters, From Time Immemorial

Mirroring the repressive policies of past Middle East regimes, todays dictatorships like Syria and Libya rule through repressive laws and excessive violence to maintain control. Also, just as western governments respond today to intimidation and fear of Arab violence; British policy response, during its mandate period, generously appeased the Arabs by heavily restricting Jewish immigration to Palestine. This in essence opened up jobs from Jewish industry to Arabs and not to Jews. Notoriously, British Mandate policy stiff-armed Jewish holocaust victims trying to enter Palestine (sending great numbers back to their deaths in Europe), while closing their eyes to multitudes of Arab immigrants- who were free to enter (Israel)Palestine both undocumented and unmolested.

Throughout the British Mandate period, Jewish immigration was meticulously recorded, while both widespread Arab "immigration and in-migration" to (Israel)Palestine was conspicuously "un-catalogued". The resulting historical record therefore has scant to no record of most Arab immigration to (Israel)Palestine. That is why it might appear today, "inaccurately", that a sizeable Arab population had actually settled (Israel)Palestine hundreds of years ago, self-propagating for generations- which is essentially false.

In 1930 the Hope Simpson Report "contributed substantially to the myth of "displaced" and "landless" Arabs brought about by Jews"…"its contentions were proved false within a short time"…-J. Peters

"Not only did the illicit Arab immigration go unrecorded, it was clearly recognized in 1930 that by allowing the immigration of Arabs into Palestine de facto, the British were ..fostering ..an injustice to the Jewish immigrant, whose place.. was being taken by an illicit Arab immigrant..""In all ,less than one percent of the rural non-Jewish population of Arabs proved to be bona fide "displaced Arabs"-J.Peters

It is also untrue that a majority of Arabs were (Israeli)Palestinian landowners, as most land originally was owned, if at all, by overlords rather than by Arab nomads and new Arab immigrants. The now universal argument promoted today that "foreigners" aka- "Jews"-kicked the Arabs out of (Israel)Palestine and took their land and homes- is a fraud. The opposite case is more truthful- that being that Arab immigrants fleeing repressive regimes flocked to (Israel)Palestine because the resurgent Jewish industry offered them jobs with a better, healthier future. This is even markedly true today- as hundreds of thousands of non-Jewish migrants from all over the globe have come to Israel, seeking opportunity and a brighter future, despite the inherent dangers there.

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