Moshe Novick from FACEBOOK
In 1840 the population of Jerusalem was 80 % Jews and 12% Christian Semites. In 1900 there were about 400,000 Arabs in the holy land. In 1947 there were a little less than 1.200,000 Arabs including Christians and Druse as well as Muslim Cirrcassis and Christian Armenians The Arabs by that time slightly outnumbered the Jews. The Jews were prevented by the British to come to Israel by that time but the Arabs were in no way inhibited to enter.The Arabs were from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Egypt, Syria ,,Lebanon, and Iraq as well as Beduoins from the Sinai. Arafat tried to give them all a common ancestry by grouping them all together under the name of Palestinians. That was prior to the Six Day Warin 1967. Prior to then the UN simply called them Arabs of Palestine the name used for the British Mandate . During the Mandate Jews were called on theit mandate passports as Palestinians