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Zionist FAQs: David Ben-Gurion debunking several Zionist myths (on population, Arab immigration, and land ownership) about Palestine and its people during the pre-Nakba period

If Palestine was empty, as Jews often claim, how come David Ben-Gurion (the founder of the "Jewish state") wrote the exact opposite as late as 1966 and as early as 1918? How come Ben-Gurion asserted in 1935 that much of the land is in private hands and the state owns very little? If the Palestinians' population increase was due to Arab immigration, as Jews often claim, then how come it was Ben-Gurion who asserted the exact opposite a year before Nakba? On top of that, Herr Ben-Gurion believed as early as 1918 that Palestinians are the remnants of the Israelites! Let us not waste your time; here is what Ben-Gurion wrote seven years before he died in a book titled "Jews in Their Land" on page 292, which he released in Jan. 1966 (twenty years after Nakba): "In 1914,..the Jews in the Land.. 12% of the population":

Please don't take our word for it; here is a soft copy of Ben-Gurion's book hosted at Archive.org, which you can borrow for an hour for free (scroll to page 292 or view a scan of the page here). As you contemplate what Ben-Gurion had written 20 years after Nakba, please keep in mind that:

"Report On The State of Palestine" issued on March 28th, 1921, by the Third Palestine Arab Congress to Winston Churchill
  • A) What Ben-Gurion wrote in 1966 conclusively proves that the current Zionist narrative (Palestine was empty for 2,000 years until Jews bloomed its desert) intentionally evolved, propagated, and nurtured way after Ben-Gurion died in the early 1970s.
  • B) Just in case you think this was an isolated citation, think twice. Ben-Gurion clearly said it much earlier in January 1918: "Palestine is not an empty country." This time, we shall cite Ben-Gurion's official biographer, Shabtai Teveth, on pages 37-38. Also, here is Haim Arlosoroff (the second in command in the Jewish Agency), known to have said something similar in the early 1920s. To rub salt into the wound, Mr. Arlosoroff also acknowledged the existence of the Palestinian national movement soon after WWI ended and warned against ignoring it. That is another Zionist myth which we have debunked in another section.

    Herzl Died Thinking Israel Would Have Been in Uganda, not in Palestine
    Right arrow free icon Now, allow these facts to sink in for a minute and reflect: this implies that nowadays, Jews repeat a lie that Ben-Gurion debunked just before they died. Stay tuned; more evidence, from Zionists' primary sources, will be available shortly about other related topics. What we've shared so far was only the tip of the iceberg. The whole Zionist narrative is way more fragile than you think.
  • Looting 'Ayn Karim by newly arrived persecuted European Jewish refugees, 1948
    C) Pay attention to how David Ben-Gurion admitted that Jews made up 12% of the population as of 1914; he inflated the Jewish population to 85,000 and deflated the Palestinians' population statistics! To prove our point, here is the World Zionist Organization's submission to the League of Nations (p. 11) in 1924, clearly saying that Jews were 55,000 (under 8%, not 12%, as of 1918) when WWI ended. The Jewish Agency also confirmed such a fact in its 1946 Memorandum (see p. 38), and here is Rabbi Stephen Wise, who used the number 50,000 in front of the US Congress in early 1944 (Wise's number is the closest to the real number, which is much lower). This means that Ben-Gurion inflated Palestine's Jewish population by at least 200%.

    As you digest the earlier figures, please remember that only a few of those Jews were citizens of the country; the majority of those Jews were either immigrants or refugees. Ironically, that continued to be the case as late as the War of Nakba in 1948. On top of that, the population census during the Ottoman period underrepresented Palestinians in rural areas (mostly that was done to avoid military service), and the Jewish population was concentrated in and around major population centers.

    Official UN Map: It was updated in August 1950, showing that Palestinians STILL OWN 94% of the lands
    Note also how Zionists among the Jews at the time were considered to be an extreme fringe in Jewish politics, which was dominated by BUND, who were assimilationist Jews, socialists, liberals, and against the nation-state concept (Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt were good examples). Only after WWII ended, Zionists dominated Jewish politics after the destruction of the BUND (Abraham Burg, p. 37). It should be re-emphasized that the Palestinian population was consistently undercounted for many reasons, mainly because that is i) how many avoid compulsory military service and ii) the Bedouins rarely cooperated with any census, which continues to be the case in Israel and the neighboring states!
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    D) Note how Ben-Gurion admitted that most Jews at the time were not a self-sufficient community (85% of them lived in the major cities), and the vast majority lived off of charitable aid from the diaspora Jewry. Therefore, we ask: is it possible that Palestinians lived in the countryside sustainably from the land that they owned for centuries? We ask: for how long will the "Jewish state" last without generous charitable contributions from the West and diaspora Jewry?

    It should be noted that to this date, Palestinians still prefer to live in the countryside, and Israelis have done the exact opposite since the inception of Zionism! Now, remind us guys: how did city dwellers manage to bloom the Negev desert? Yes, the same desert that hasn't bloomed since the ice age! Well, maybe with AI. Try asking ChatGPT: since Jews bloomed the Negev desert, can you explain how they managed to reverse global warming? Well, you may lose your mind! When AI is trained with garbage in, what do you expect at the output?
  • A family portrait of al-Dajani family in their house in al-Baq'a neighborhood just before Nakba, Jerusalem. Soon after the picture was taken, the house was looted.
    E) As of 1947, Jews were under a 1/3 of the total population, but ONLY a 1/4th of those gained Palestinian Citizenship (meaning Jews were under 10% of total citizens) who owned under 6% of the lands (much of it owned by corporations ---i.e., JNF & Keren Hayesod-- and not owned by Zionist Jews who were citizens of Palestine)! This means that 3 out of every 4 Jews, as of 1948, were either refugees or immigrants (legal or illegal). Now, please allow this fact to sink in for a minute, then reflect: do you honestly think Zionist Jews gave a good name for refugees? Don't forget to ask ChatGPT about that?
  • Studies In Palestinian Customs And Folklore By Dr. Tawfiq Cana'an in 1922!
    F) During a press conference in 1947, Ben-Gurion debunked another common Zionist myth that it was Arab immigration from neighboring countries that flooded Palestine and increased its "Arab" population. Not only did David destroy that myth, but he also pointed out that Palestinians were emigrating to South and Latin America (note that at the time, North America was primarily open for White European immigration only). What Ben-Gurion was implying was that Palestinians were leaving Palestine, and there was little Arab immigration, which is in sync with the facts (see Survey of Palestine, p. 185). Please feel free to verify our citation at The Center For Israel Education (Israeled.org), which is hosting a Jewish Agency PDF named The Jewish Plan For Palestine, p. 53. At length, we have debunked this myth from multiple angles, including from DNA evidence.
  • G) While David Ben-Gurion was addressing the 19th Zionist Congress in October 1935, he debunked three more Zionist myths concerning land ownership in Palestine. Herr Ben-Gurion clearly stated that the state owns a small percentage of the overall and much of the land is in private hands, when Jews owned under 3% of the land. On top of that, David admitted that half of Beersheba was cultivated, but by whom, dear David? Perhaps the Negev desert bloomed itself, or maybe it was bloomed by those who didn't exist! Feel free to verify our findings at Archive.org. It was cited by the Jewish Frontier, October 1935 Edition, pages 26-27.
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    H) This implies that the current Zionists' narrative (Palestine was empty for two thousand years until Zionist Jews bloomed its Negev desert) was concocted out of thin air after the 6-Day War. It seems that the 6-Day War MUST have been a turning point when most American Jews (but not all) became hardcore Zionists, but why after the 6-Day War and not before? Why not after Nakba, when Palestine was emptied and Palestinians were replaced and dispossessed? Honestly, that is still a big mystery!

    Right arrow free icon That said, this conclusion implies that American Jews (who are mostly Zionists nowadays) are complicit in propagating the big lies about Palestine and its people. As we have proven earlier, lying in defense of Israel is being done intentionally, although Ben-Gurion debunked their lies multiple times just before he died!
    Browse hundreds of pictures showing Palestinians being ethnically cleansed from their homes.
    Right arrow free icon When American Jews have been promoting the big lie that Palestinians were not replaced, how does that not enforce the far-right claim that "Jews are plotting to replace them"? Meaning, how propagating the big lie isn't good for antisemitism?
    Right arrow free icon As if American Jews got themselves stuck in a self-defeating feedback loop system: to help Israel, they've promoted big lies about Palestine and its people, which resulted in fomenting antisemitism, and that has ended up working against them. Hannah Arendt pointed out how the Jews in the last 500 years were known to have lost their marbles every 100 years by believing in several versions of false messiahs (she compared Zionism to the secular version of the catastrophic Shabtai Tzvi's Sabbatean messianic movement in the mid-17th century)! On this point, it is worth noting that before WWII, it is well documented how Zionists fomented antisemitism to achieve their political gains; that is why Europe's Jews were mostly anti-Zionists and considered Zionists as the enemy from within. Now, ask yourself: When was antisemitism ever bad for Zionism? The honest answer: never! Love it or hate it, that is the honest truth. Zionism and antisemitism reinforce one another; both were born around the same time in fascist Europe!
    Right arrow free icon Does that explain why the vast majority of Europe's Jews voted with their feet and immigrated to the Americas to live with the Gentiles and not to the emptied country of Palestine? To this date, almost every other American Jew has visited Israel, but under 1% made it home (mostly retirees with one foot in the US and another in Tel Aviv).
  • Weaponizing Antisemitism in defense of Israel By Donna Level David Ben-Gurion: We're the aggressors; Arabs defend themselves. (Righteous Victims, p. 652)
    I) Since the current Zionist narrative became dominant only after the 6-Day War, we STRONGLY suspect that this was done when American Jews at large (but not all; there is still a vocal anti-Zionist Jews in the US, but they are a minority) adopted the farce of a book From Time Immemorial, which was quickly debunked soon after it was published by Israeli historians and the NY Times in November 1985 (little over a year since it was published in 1984). When you read the Times article, Joan Peters (the author) was exposed as more of a hoax; she refused to be interviewed by the Times, and Prof. Norman Finkelstein wrote his dissertation thesis at Princeton, exposing Ms. Peters as a fraud. What we wrote is an open secret in the American Jewish community for five decades, which was a big scandal in the 1980s. Thus, what we wrote is known to be a fact within the Jewish community, and despite that, the book is widely cited. It should be noted that this book fomented a large number of unfounded conspiracy theories about Palestinians (much worse than The Protocols of Elders of Zion or Mein Kampf), and we have seen so many American Jews still use it as THE source concerning the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Ironically, this book is still a best-seller, and Amazon will be happier to take your hard-earned dollars!

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    Right arrow free icon Now do you understand why Bibi Netanyahu (the infamous congenital liar even by Israeli standards) in 2015 thanked Ms. Peters while she was on her deathbed for her lying service (a kind of Hasbarah badge of honor)! Birds of a feather always flock together. In a nutshell, in this community, there is no marketplace for the truth; at an early stage, the kids are taught how to gaslight and lie, and you will be rewarded for propagating the big lies. Remind us, guys: when was lying ever bad for Zionism? Therefore, why should they change? Here is our prediction: one day, this community shall tell us the truth, and no one will believe them! There is no question about it; the lies haven't caught up with this community yet, but eventually, it will. If you have seven minutes, watch this clip, but first, hang on to your seat.

    Khazar Empire map!A Playlist Of Short Clips Of Jews Sharing Their DNA Test Results
    Right arrow free icon Much to our surprise, recently, we discovered that millions of Ashkenazi Jews' DNA test results at 23andMe have been leaked. This implies that much of the American Jewish community already knows that their ancestors were never near the Levant in the past 2,000 years. Despite these facts, the American Jewish community knowingly propagates the big lie that they (the Ashkenazi Jewish community) are indigenous to Palestine more than Palestinians, and Palestinians are a bunch of "squatters" who recently arrived from neighboring states after Europe's Jews "developed" the country! Think about it: if their dubious claims have any merit, this community would have flooded social media with their DNA test results? Doesn't this community have six million reasons to end this conflict peacefully? This is another solid proof of how this community has been engaged in a massive campaign of disinformation (a strategy named by Steve Bannon as "flooding the zone") for decades against Palestine and its people. For peace's sake, the majority of Jews already have their DNA test results at hand. Thus, they have the power to resolve this conflict peacefully! There is no need for genocides, ethnic cleansing, land theft, Jim Crow, and apartheid! We have collected hundreds of Jews' DNA results. Here is what we collected up to this point.

    Palestinian Refugees fleeing Jaffa in April or May 1948
    Right arrow free icon Just to emphasize the validity of our conclusion, see for yourself how American Jews flocked to the lying news network (Fox News) after the October 7th, 2023 Raid, and lobbied with tooth and nail against a Jewish Senator who dared to vote for a weapons embargo against their genocidal state! Some people are willing to go out of their way to swallow and regurgitate the big lies that could be remotely believable. As if seeking the truth has become )))antisemitic(((. This was cognitive dissonance on full display like no other. We didn't know if we should laugh or cry when we read the article! Anyhow, hang on to your seat; more evidence is still coming.

    Hayim-Greenberg Why did Hayim Greenberg describe American Jewry as "morally bankrupt" in early 1943?
    Right arrow free icon We ask the question again: how does promoting blatant big lies in defense of Israel doesn't foment antisemitism?

    Right arrow free icon In a nutshell, American Jews have been engaged in spreading the big lies that Israelis abandoned several decades ago! We found their fingerprints also in promoting the Hebron Massacre of 1929 as a big source of disinformation to paint Palestinians as antisemites; the same goes for promoting Mufti Haj Amin's story during WWII, and Palestinian nationlism was invented by the KGB in the early 1960s. If you have a minute, please listen to Emily Tamkin (starting from 15:12 to 15:43) describing how "...American Jews have created a version of Israel that is divorced from what is happening on the ground".

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    As Emily cited, many other American Jews made similar observations; here is Seth Rogen's version. If you have the time, we ask you to watch Miko Peled, exposing you to how Israeli Jews are being indoctrinated with Zionist big lies in the Israeli school system and army boot camps. Therefore, Emily's earlier characterization wasn't concocted out of the blue, and sadly, the mainstream media in the West covered these facts. If you are interested, here is another American Jew who said a very similar thing.
  • David Ben-Gurion envisioned that Nazis' Nuremberg Race Laws would become the LEVER that would end up creating the "Jewish state," but how? Click the image for details
    J) From a different angle, we've investigated how the "Jews bloomed the Negev desert" myth evolved. Much to our surprise, we've discovered that as late as 1938, David-Ben-Gurion wrote to his son Amos about his plans (more like a dream) of blooming the Negev desert (meaning it wasn't blooming at the time), and most importantly, David admitted it was barren and Jews thinly populated it. As we all know, nothing happened during WWII in the next decade. Therefore, we are forced to conclude that this lie must have evolved and nurtured way after the war of Nakba. Consequently, it is safe to conclude that this ridiculous lie was kept alive and nurtured by the American Jewish community when they adopted Zionism in mass after the 6-Day War, but not before.

    For the love of God, if you wish to see cognitive dissonance in action, bring one of them to Google's Satellite view and ask one of them: Which desert did Jews bloom lately? Zoom in and out, drag left and right, and up and down. Well, maybe humanity can learn from the Jews how to reverse global warming. If you're curious, drag the mouse to the Dead Sea; look closely; it has almost disappeared in the last 50 years! Now, God forbid, if you have a death wish, ask one of them to share his or her 23andMe DNA test results!
  • Browse hundreds of pictures showing Zionist Jews looting Palestinian properties.
    K) Just in case the prior arguments and facts are unconvincing and you are still high on Zionists' gaslight, let us drive another nail in this myth's coffin once and for all. In 1918, David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, investigated the question of Jewish identity in a richly documented book, Eretz Israel Past and Present, published by Poale Zion Palestine Committee. He concluded that:
    JFK said it BEST in 1939: Palestine Was Hardly Britain's to Give Away
    the Arabs of Palestine are none but those ancient Jews who were forced to convert to the religion of Arab Bedouin, who had conquered the land in the seventh century. The Arabs of Palestine were hidden converts in whose veins ran Jewish blood.” saved image grab (Time of Israel in Aug 21, 2016, Ha'aretz June 10th, 2018, and at APNews Sept. 25th, 2018 --- recently deleted; censorship is alive and well).

    [It should be noted that i) Ben-Gurion kept repeating such facts (recently proven by DNA evidence) until the late 1920s, and he abandoned pursuing unity with Palestinians only after the Hebron riots of 1929. When it was proven to him that Palestinians would never accept mass Jewish immigration to their country. ii) What Ben-Gurion wrote implied he believed Palestinians are the indigenous people who didn't immigrate from neighboring regions. iii) This is solid proof that Zionism, to its founding father, wasn't about "race per se," and it was all about power!]

    Jaffa National Christian Orthodox School (1938)
    This is more proof that the current Zionist narrative has evolved after the 6-Day War, which Israel's founding fathers never believed from the get-go, and mainly, it has been propagated in the past few decades by American Jews. Eventually, the chickens will come home to roost. One day, this community will tell us the truth; then, and only then, no one will believe them. This genius of a strategy emanates from a very tiny community that is the most educated, the most affluent, and most importantly, it has more Nobel prize laureates than any cohort in history! That is what too much power does to people. Before you judge us, please watch Prof. Alan Dershowitz articulating our point of view in under two minutes. This community is on fire; totally unhinged!

If you have time, we urge you to read what Shlomo Sand wrote in "The Invention of the Jewish People," starting from page 184. Mr. Sand went back to many primary sources, proving that what Ben-Gurion wrote earlier was widespread among the early Zionist Jews until the end of the 1920s, and all came to a complete halt when Palestinian nationalism was in full swing after the Great Revolt of 1936.

American Indian Freedom Dance With a Palestinian
Get Off Our Land. This Land Is Ours

Clinging To The Land By Any Means Possible

It is amazing how the indigenous people clung with their teeth and nails to their land, and in mass, they refused to leave. Not only the Islamization of the people happen more recently than most people think (mostly straight from Judaism, not Christianity), but the conversion was done for pragmatic reasons (see our detailed research if you care). It should be noted that this stunning fact (of Palestinians clinging to their land) continues to this date. This means that what we wrote was not a slogan; it had been the case for thousands of years. YES, Palestinians did the same thing when their land was occupied by the Romans, the Arabs, the Crusaders, Napoleon, the Ottomans, and the British. Simply, Palestinians adapted; they even changed their names, identity, and religion to stay on their land. This is coined into a proverb every Palestinian knows by heart: your land, your honor (أرضك، عرضك). Love it or hate it, what we wrote is true ONLY to a few Jews, and those are the Palestinian Jews of Nablus. YES, our Samaritan Jewish community clung to their land even after Nakba; they did what they had to do and stayed put on their land; nothing else mattered. We are sure what we wrote rings hollow to most Jews and Westerners who don't know how to value the land, but not to the Palestinians: this land is our land; every inch of it is ours. Now, allow this fact to sink in for a minute and reflect: for peace's sake, leave our land; you are not welcome here.

If you wish to burn your hard-earned money, you can purchase this Hasbarah book at Amazon for less than $15. Also, there is a soft copy of Ben-Gurion's book hosted on Archive.org, which you can borrow for an hour for free (see page 292).


Here is another fun fact from The Center For Israel Education (Israeled.org) that you may find interesting, but the lying continues. Click here for the linked PDF:

Here is a 2016 Time of Israel article confirming similar conclusions:

Did Zionist Jews Give A-Good Name For Refugees
Palestinians Ask: Did Zionist Jews Give a Good Name For Refugees?

Finally, after reviewing all this evidence, we Palestinians have every right to ask: since many in the "civilized West" loves conflating Judaism with Zionism, do you honestly believe [Zionist] Jews gave a good name for refugees? God forbid, if another Jewish refugee crisis occurs in the future, would the "civilized West" refuse to receive Jewish refugees as they did in the 1930s and 40s? God forbid, if such a thing happens again, then who can blame any nation for refusing to take in such refugees? Who would welcome refugees who openly plot to replace them? Thus, was it a mistake to give them refuge? Those are legitimate questions that every Jew and Westerner should contemplate deeply. All we Palestinians ask is just a little empathy, or is that too much to ask?

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