Arthur R. Butz – The Hoax Of The Twentieth Century

Chapter 7: The Final Solution
Table 9: Palestine population
YEAR MOSLEMS JEWS CHRISTIANS OTHERS
1924 532,636 94,945 74,094 8,263
1929 634,811 156,481 81,776 9,443
1934 747,826 282,975 102,407 10,793
1939 860,580 445,457 116,958 12,150
1944 994,724 528,702 135,547 14,098
U.S., therefore, there was concern with and opposition to the substantial support
that U.S. “refugee” policy was giving to the Zionist cause, but it was too late and
too little to have any significant influence on events.
In his report, Meader complained of the difficulty of getting the Jewish (as distinct
from non-Jewish) DPs to do any work or even help fix up their own dwellings.
Nevertheless, they constantly complained that things were not being done as
well as they thought they could be done. Meader also pointed out that illegal activities
and crimes of violence by DPs were numerous. He remarked that the U.S.
had agreed to accept as immigrants 2,250,000 refugees from Europe. 413
It is of only slight value to report here the figures that were being given for the
number of Jewish DPs. In the autumn of 1946, it was said that there were 185,000
Jewish DPs in camps in West Germany. When one adds those in Austria, the figure
would exceed 200,000. It is also said that there were over 400,000 Jewish
refugees in Western Europe on July 1, 1947. 414 However, such figures do not say
very much, because the camps for Jews and other refugees really served as transit
camps and, in the case of the Jews, there was the constant movement toward the
U.S. and Palestine, largely illegal or “unofficial” in the case of the latter destination
and possibly in the case of the former destination as well.
The principal, but not sole, destinations of the Jews who left Europe were Palestine
and the U.S., so we should attempt to estimate the numbers involved. Palestine
population figures kept by the British authorities are probably accurate up to
some point in 1946, see table 9. 415
In late 1946, there were supposed to be 608,000 Jews and 1,237,000 Moslems,
Christians, and “Others.” Past this point, accurate British figures do not exist, on
account of the large extent of illegal immigration, as the British gradually lost
control of the situation. In any event, by the time some of the dust had settled in
July 1949, the Israeli Government reported that there were 925,000 Jews in Israel.
These were predominantly Jews of European origins, the large scale immigration
of Jews from North Africa and Asia having been a subsequent development promoted
by the Israeli Government. By 1957, there were about 1,868,000 Jews in
Israel, and 868,000 Arabs had fled to neighboring countries since the Jewish takeover.
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It is worth pausing here to remark that many people have a very mistaken pic-
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New York Times (Dec. 2, 1946), 3; (Dec. 3 1946), 13.
New York Times (Nov. 2, 1946), 7; Kimche & Kimche, 95.
John & Hadawi, vol. 2, 45, 179.
World Almanac (1950), 193; (1958), 364-365; Prittie, 149-150; McDonald, 142-143.
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