Any argument/debate regarding the area commonly referred to as Palestine/Israel should start from a general knowledge of the history that reflects the region...
even though ancient history may be discounted as irrelevant to modern times, recent history ( the last 100-150 years ) of the foreign occupation of Palestine has significance to what transpires today...
recent Jewish immigration into Palestine began as early as the 1800's in a concerted effort to populate the area to gain control over land and resources...
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1876- Palestinian deputies from Jerusalem attend the first Ottoman parliament in Istanbul
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1878-Petah Tikva, the first modern Zionist agricultural settlement, established in Palestine
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1881- Ottoman government announces permission for foreign Jews to settle throughout the Ottoman Empire, excluding Palestine.
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1882- First wave of 25,000 Zionist immigrants enters Palestine, coming mainly from Eastern Europe.
Baron Edmond de Rothschild of Paris begins financial backing of Jewish colonization of Palestine.
Ottoman government adopts policy allowing Jewish pilgrims and businessmen to visit Palestine but not to settle there.
Ottoman government informs Jewish leadership in Constantinople that it views Zionist colonization in Palestine as a political problem.
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1891- German Jewish millionaire, Baron Maurice de Hirsh, founds Jewish Colonization Association (JCA).
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1897- First Zionist Congress in Switzerland issues the Basle Program calling for the establishment of a "home for the Jewish people in Palestine". It also establishes the World Zionist Organization (WZO) to work to that end.
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1903- Second wave of Zionist mass immigration to Palestine begins.
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1917- Balfour Declaration. British Secretary of State Balfour pledges British support for a "Jewish national home in Palestine".
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1922- First British census of Palestine shows population of 757,182, with 78% Muslim, 11% Jewish and 9.6% Christian.
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1924-1928- Fourth wave of 67,000 Zionist immigrants, over 50% from Poland, increases Jewish population of Palestine to 16% of total. Registered Jewish land ownership (1928) totals 4.2% of area of country.
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1931- Second British census of Palestine shows total population of 1,035,154 with 73.4% Muslim, 16.9% Jewish and 8.6% Christian.
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1940-1945- Arrival of over 60,000 Zionist immigrants, including 20 - 25,000 who have entered the country illegally, increases Jewish population in Palestine to 31% of total. Registered Jewish land ownership rises to 6% of area of country.
President Truman asks British Prime Minister Clement Attlee to grant immigration certificates allowing 100,000 Jews into Palestine.
Large-scale illegal Jewish immigration into Palestine resumes under Haganah control.
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