[BenLurkin]

What do General Allenby and T E Lawrence report of the population Israel during the first World War?.

[CondorFlight]

Mark Twain:

“Stirring scenes ... occur in the valley [Jezreel] no more.

“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent-not for thirty miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation.

“One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings.”

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Big Red Badger]

Bump

[sefarkas]

If they were not there, then where did they come from and how did it get so big in the course of fifty years or so?

[Lisbon1940]

There were about 1500 from Nabi Rubin who were expelled. Their descendants number more than 10,000 now.

[Rusty0604]

Great pics, thanks for posting.

[boycott]

Some great photos. Thanks.

[Vendome]

BTTTFLR

[shibumi]

Thank you very much for posting this.

The article is truly enlightening and fascinating.

Those pictures will be speaking to me all night.

[Yaelle]

Ok, not really exactly on topic, but the old joke kind of presents itself.

The Israelis and the Palestinians settled down for another round of peace talks. The Israeli minister stood up to begin his speech.

“Before I begin, I’d like to lighten the mood with a little joke. One day Moses decided it was so hot he would take a nice cool swim in the Sea. He took off his clothes and placed them on a tree branch, and refreshed himself in the water. When he got out of the water, he saw his clothing was gone. He called to his friend, “What has happened to my clothing?”

His friend rushed up and told Moses, “The Palestinians! Moses, I saw the Palestinians steal your clothes!”

At the point, one of the Palestinian delegation to the peace talks interrupted the Jew. “This is an insulting joke! No more! There were no Palestinians here at that time!”

The Israeli spoke with a smile. “Well, now that we both have that established, let us open our negotiations.”

[Bodleian_Girl]

I would have looked but her site has too many pop ups.

[kaehurowing]

This article is amazingly ignorant. In the 1800s, Jerusalem and Palestine were part of the Ottoman Empire. The British and French mandates were not created until after WWI, when the Allies carved up the Ottoman Empire in the Sykes-Picot Agreement.

[monkeyshine]

Bookmarked, very interesting information and compelling evidence. Thanks for posting it.

[maddog55]

Palestine as a country and “Palestinian” people are made up BS period. 9000 photo’s from the 1800s not showing a mosque is meaningless.

[SJackson]

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Strange premise, at the time Palestine was a part of Turkey, it's armpit where poorly performing civil servants might be sent. Per the Twain quotes on the thread, not much there, but there were Muslims. And as evidenced by the third holiest site in Islam

Kind of a dump. There was even Tel Aviv, out there in the desert.

The meeting founding Tel-Aviv 1908" [sic] (source: Avraham Soskin, Tel Aviv, 1926). The lottery of housing plots for the Ahuzat Bayit suburb took place on April 11, 1909. Soskin’s familiar photograph of that event quickly achieved iconic status.

To paraphrase our President, Jews, you didn't build that!

[ZULU]

They took over Lebanon in a couple of decades. In two centuries, they could obvious out breed anyone with their large families, multiple wives and terroristic threats.

[Romulus]

Right, and there were no Christian inhabitants of Bethlehem and Galilee? How stupid do you think people are?

[Prospero]

It's possible to download and or view online a scanned book of selected photographs by Félix Bonfils of the Ottoman-occupied Holy Land at archive.org:

Souvenirs d'Orient : album pittoresque des sites, villes et ruines les plus remarquables de la Terre-Sainte (1878)

[Lurking Libertarian]

There was no “British mandate of Palestine” in the 1800s. Palestine was a province of Turkey in the 1800s. It did not become a British Mandate until after World War I.