Afak your debate has no truths and are loaded with Joan Peters Myths and Hoaxes. Which were then plagiarised by Dershowitz and peddled as new by yourself. They were a Hoax based on selective reading of the Hope Simpson report.

The Hope Simpson report is available on line at UNISPAL dated 1930

Hope Simpson report 1930

Which tells you who was there and who came immigration both temporary and permanent. Joan Peters took the temporary agricultural workers that crossed over for seasonal work and added them into permanent immigrants and then multiplied the lot to come up with a hoax.

and on that line; why would they come to Palestine as though attracted to the Jewish flowering of the desert myth when the Jewish Kibbutz and businesses were operating an "employ Jewish only labour" policy as inaugurated by the JNF and Histadrut?

On the other hand, Dr. Strahorn writes:-

" .... Up to within recent years the land was cultivated from the Arab villages, located round the rim of the Plain. Cereals together with minor garden areas around the villages constituted the Arab cropping system. In very recent years considerable areas of land have passed under the control of Jewish colonies and villages; gardens and orchards are now dotting the former expanse of grain-fields . . . . "

From:-Reports of the experts submitted to the Joint Palestine survey commission. page. 152
by Frank Adams; John Campbell, Sir; Cyril Q Henriques; Jacob Goodale Lipman; Elwood Mead; M J Rosenau; Edward J Russell, Sir; Knowles Augustus Ryerson; Arthur Thomas Strahorn; Charles Francis Wilinsky; Leo Wolman; which formed part of the:- Joint Palestine Survey Commission. Boston: Press of Daniels Printing, 1928.


'It was the Palestinians who made the desert bloom!'
Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians 1876-1948. Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1991.

"Contrary to prevailing opinion in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate. By the end of the Mandate, the total land area under cultivation by Palestinian farmers (excluding citrus) was 5,484, 700 dunams (one dunum=one thousand square meters), and the area cultivated by Jewish farmers was 435,500 dunums. [1] With regard to desert cultivation, by 1935 The Palestinians were farming 2,109,234 dunams in the Negev, [2] whereas total Jewish landholdings in the Negev in 1946 did not exceed 21,000 dunams. Thus it was the Palestinians who made the desert bloom!" (page 125)

1. A Survey of Palestine: Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the Information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, 2 vols. and supp. (Jerusalem: Government of Palestine, 1946), 1:323.

2. The Area of Cultivable Land in Palestine (Jerusalem Jewish Agency, 1936), p. 13.