Gaza 'will not be liveable by 2020' - UN report

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95. In 1941 there were 400 thousand

By 1950 the Jewish population was 1.2 million The 1941 Arab population of 1.1 million remained virtually unchanged and Arabs became a minority. However, even with the huge increase of Jewish immigrants, these figures are misleading because they represent all of what was called Palestine in 1948. By 1950, most of the Arabs were concentrated in the smaller fraction of land in the West Bank and Gaza. Within the borders of the much larger Israel proper, the Jewish population was and remains 87%. Furthermore, Jewish settlement encroachment into the West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem and even Sinai until 1979 has substantially increased the Jewish population in those areas. It was the Israelis who thought they could create separate states by dispossessing the majority of Palestinians. You argument is the equivalent of saying that a minority population has the right to create a majority state for itself and disposes the previous majority by importing its brethren because they live there. Even worse it implies a right to slowly annex what is left.