So, who are the people who populated the area that would become the Mandate of Palestin in 1921?
Here is Albert T. Clay in The Atlantic Monthly (on Clay):
The inhabitants of the land should be called Syrians — or Palestinians, if Palestine is to be separated from Syria. True, there are many Arabs living there, more, for example, than Greeks, Germans, or Latins, because of the proximity of Arabia; but these are not the real Palestinians, nor do they represent the bulk of the substantial part of the nation. The people whom the Jews conquered when they entered Palestine were called by the general name of Amorites or Canaanites. While many were massacred by the Jews in certain cities, still only a portion of the country was conquered. Even after David took Jerusalem, Amorites continued to live in that city; besides, many foreign peoples, as the Hittites and Philistines, also lived in the land. There can be no question that the blood of the present Palestinian, or Syrian, includes that of the Jew as well as of the Amorite, Hittite, Phoenician, Philistine, Persian, Greek, Latin, and Arab. Such a fusion is not unlike that found in the veins of many Americans whose ancestors have lived here for several generations. When the whole population of Palestine became Mohammedan, there is little doubt that a large percentage of the Jews were also forced to accept this faith; their descendants are now classed by the Political Zionists as ‘Arabs.’ The Yemenites, who we know migrated from Arabia, and who in every respect resemble the Arab in physique, appearance, and bearing, they, none the less, call Jews, because of their faith. Then, also, in such Christian cities as Bethlehem and Ramallah a type is seen that is distinctively European, and doubtless largely represents remnants or descendants of the Crusaders, or of Christians who migrated to the Holy Land in the past centuries. Moreover, the Palestinian or Syrian is a composite race, largely Semitic, which has developed from the association of the different racial elements inhabiting the land for at least five thousand years past. And while the Arabs have in all periods filtered in from Arabia, and the language, as in Egypt and Mesopotamia, is Arabic, it is a deliberate misrepresentation to classify the inhabitants as ‘Arabs’.
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Winston Churchill said:
“Some people like Jews and some do not,
but no thoughtful man can doubt the fact
that they are beyond all question the most
formidable and the most remarkable race
which has ever appeared in the world.”
SOURCE 1:
Winston Churchill, 1920 February 8,
in the Illustrated Sunday Herald,
a British Sunday newspaper
SOURCE 2: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 4, page 38) by Martin Gilbert, 2007 CE
SOURCE 3:
Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 12, page 278) by Andrew Roberts,
Viking Publishers, year 2018,
ISBN 1101980990 & ISBN 9781101980996
CHRONOLOGY:
Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.
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[Winston] Churchill wrote, on 3 June 1950 CE:
“The thought, the inspiration and the culture
of the Jews has been one of the vital dominants
in the world history.
There are none of the arts or sciences which
have not been enriched by Jewish achievements.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, pages 280 to 281) by Martin Gilbert,
ISBN-10: 0805088644 * ISBN-13: 978-0805088649
CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.
===================================
[Winston] Churchill spoke [in year 1954 CE]
of the Jewish Nobel Prizewinners, whose contribution
to humanity in many fields had been “unique and absolute.”
There were nations of hundreds of millions
of people who had been unable to produce
a single Nobel Prizewinner, “and are the beneficiaries
every day from the genius and discoveries of the Jews.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 290) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE
CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.
===================================
Sir Winston Churchill said [in year 1955 CE]:
“You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem;
it is they who made it famous.”
SOURCE: Churchill and the Jews
(chapter 26, page 292) by Martin Gilbert, year 2007 CE
ISBN-10: 0805088644 * ISBN-13: 978-0805088649
CHRONOLOGY:
Sir Winston Churchill was British Prime Minister
from 1940 to 1945 CE and from 1951 to 1955 CE.
Sir Winston Churchill described “militant Mahommedanism” as “the religion of blood and war”.
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny (chapter 2, page 53) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers, year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
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The phrase:
"Islam in a man is like rabies in a dog"
is often attributed to Sir Winston Churchill.
However his exact words were:
“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries!
Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia* in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.”
* VOCABULARY NOTE: The American Heritage® Science Dictionary says that hydrophobia* is another name for rabies.
SOURCE 1: The River War:
An Historical Account of the Reconquest
of the Soudan, by Winston Churchill in
year 1899 CE, published by Longmans in two volumes.
This quote was removed from the condensed
1902 edition, for fear of antagonizing millions
of Muslims that the British Empire ruled at that time.
SOURCE 2:
Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 3, page 62) by Andrew Roberts,
Viking Publishers, year 2018,
ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996.
===================================
In March 1921,
when Sir Winston Churchill visited Gaza,
the local Arabs greeted him with frenzied cries of:
“Down with the Jews! Cut their throats!”
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 12, page 283) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers,
year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
===================================
In March 1921, Sir Winston Churchill
said to the Arabs of Haifa:
“It is manifestly right that the scattered Jews should have a national centre and a national home in which they might be reunited, and where else but in Palestine, with which the Jews for three thousand years have been intimately and profoundly associated?”
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 12, page 283) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers,
year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
===================================
“…the persecution of the Jews in Germany began in earnest with a Government-orchestrated national boycott of all Jewish businesses and professions, enforced by Brownshirt thugs on the streets who sadistically assaulted and humiliated Jews at every opportunity.
Churchill’s philo-Semitism, so rare on Tory benches, was invaluable in allowing him to see sooner than anyone else the true nature of the Nazi regime.”
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 15, page 367) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers,
year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
===================================
“Churchill had eloquently denounced the notorious [year] 1939 White Paper that had severely restricted Jewish immigration into Palestine.”
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 23, page 601) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers,
year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
===================================
On 1944 July 11, Sir Winston Churchill wrote
this to [Anthony] Eden about the Nazi death camps:
“There is no doubt that this is probably the greatest and most horrible crime ever committed in the whole history of the world…”
SOURCE: Churchill: Walking With Destiny
(chapter 30, page 829) by Andrew Roberts, Viking Publishers,
year 2018, ISBN 1101980990 * ISBN 9781101980996
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