Paradise Lost Smyrna 1922: The Destruction of Islam’s City of Tolerance by Giles Milton

Timesonline.co.uk ^ | June 15, 2008 | William Dalrymple

[Jack Black]

In the course of the Paris conference, at the same time as he casually handed over Palestine (then 90% Arab) to the Zionist movement,

I'm dubious about this statistic. Numerous late 19th century travelogs attest to the presence of many Jews in the Holy Land. Mark Twain even wrote one. They also attest the relative emptiness of the rest of "Palestine" large chunks of which were mostly used by nomads for hearding .

[Jack Black]

I doubt Wikipedia, too. No offense. But yes the 90% claim sounds oh-so politically correct.