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Chapter 1. Wave
of nationalism and socialism (1945-1956) (12)
028. Israel independence(3): Palestinians
extruded by invading Jewish immigrants (1/3)
The population of Jews the world is
estimated around 14 million. Most of them live in the US and Israel. Jewish
population in Israel is 6.3 million. They consist of the third- quarter of the
country's population of 8.5 million.
However, Jews were not so many before
Israeli independence in 1948. The total population of Palestine in the early
1920s after the World War I was 750,000, of which the Jews were about only
80,000. It meant that the ratio of Jews was only 10%. Compared with current
figure, the number was one-eighties, and the ratio was about one-eighth.
With the support of the Zionism movement
and the Balfour Declaration, numerous Jews from all over European countries migrated
to Palestine, namely "the land of Zion", before and after the World
War I. It was called "Aliyah". Nearly 200,000 Jews were rushing into
Palestine during the first and fourth Aliyah from the late 19th century to the
1920s. When the Holocaust by Nazis in Germany took place in 1930s, the Jews
escaped from Europe. Most of them headed to the US. The rest moved to Israel,
and its number reached 250 thousand (Fifth Aliyah). As a result, the total
population of Palestine immediately doubled to 1.5 million from 750 thousand
within 20 years after World War 1.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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