REVISIONIST NONSENSE
The slogan “a land without a people for a people without a land” was popular among some early Zionists when referring to what would become the State of Israel. However, in the 1920s, when the British were in control of what was then widely known as the “Holy Land” or “Palestine,” the population...
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The Royal Institute for International Affairs, for example, commenting on the
growth of the Palestinian population prior to World War II, states: 'The
number of Arabs who entered Palestine illegally from Syria and Trans-
jordan is unknown. But probably considerable.'S Professor Harold Laski
makes a similar observation: 'There has been large-scale and both assisted
and unassisted Jewish emigration to Palestine; but it is important also to
note that there has been large-scale Arab emigration from the surrounding
countries.'6 Underscoring the point, C. S. Jarvis, Governor of the Sinai
from 1923-1936, noted: 'This illegal immigration was not only going on
from the Sinai, but also from Trans-Jordan and Syria and it is very
difficult to make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time
their compatriots from adjoining States could not be kept from going in
to share that misery.'7 Even the Simpson Report acknowledged Arab
immigration in this form.
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