9,000 Photographs from 1800’s British Mandate of Palestine – with no trace of ‘Palestinians’

Posted on February 13, 2013 by ADMIN189 Comments

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Where ARE all those Palestinians, the proclaimed one million of them who lived in Israel before they were ‘displaced’? Nowhere.

Nowhere, because they never existed. And where are all the mosques for those “over 1 million Palestinians” who are suppose to have lived there already in the early 1800’s like “Palestinians” claim? If they had been 1 million at the turn of the Century, or even in 1920 after they began immigrating to fight the British, with their rapid population growth Palestine would consist of over 40 million people today and not 4 million. That alone proves the jihad lies. Their population is small because they are new invaders and occupiers who arrived late with an aim to commit jihad. They never lost land that was never theirs to begin with!

The British army permitted merely a few Ottomans to remain due to religious observations, the rest was Jewish. In reality according to eyewitness reports the barren British Mandate had a very small number of people living on it. Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Four years after his arrival he reported 15,000 prints of Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Greece, and 9,000 stereoscopic-views. He traveled to the region several times and we hear of no mass population of Palestinians, which contradicts everything the Palestinians lie about to the world.

His pictures did not manage to capture any photographs of a single so-called ‘Palestinian’ who are suppose to have lost land to Jewish occupation, if we believe Arab propaganda. All he found was a few bedouines passing through and some remnants of the Ottoman Turks. Guess why? Because the “Palestinian” people as we know them today never existed.

The original philistines which the Arab jihadi’s named themselves after were a small group of lawless bandits who occupied the region near Gaza by force and died out before the birth of Christ. Islam was created over 600 years after the death of Christ and is the world’s youngest religion.

Palestinians are a fake creation ordered and constructed by the Grand Mufti Haj Mohammed Effendi Amin el-Husseini [1889-1974]. They were basically discovered (formed and invented) and originate from mass immigration from Egypt and Saudi Arabia with purpose to commit jihad. The Egyptian fighters ended up in Gaza and the Saudi fighters ended up in the West Bank according to their rout of entry. This has been well documented by British government reports from Transjordan. It also fits the video clips and rants by Hamas leaders, who seem well aware that Palestinians are fake yet continue to argue that they ‘lost land’. We are dealing with a terrorist organization here, and not a people who became victims of loss of land.

It is also important to pay attention to the fact that once Israel had been assigned to be returned  to the Jewish people in 1917, Muslims rapidly began to pour into the region from other countries with a purpose to kill them. The first conflict and killing in Israel/Palestine was initiated by the Muslims. At that point to control the population influx the British government stopped Jewish people from entering the area. So for a short span, the Muslim population suddenly became a majority. Not for natural reasons but due to their rapid invasion and occupation. Therefore, if we look at timeline of events in history we will quite easily see that the REAL occupiers of the region are the Muslims.

Birket, Israel in late 1800’s.

Jews at the Western wall in 1870.

Yessayi Garabedian, the Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem, Felix Bonfils

W.C. Prime 1857 in „Tent Life in the Holy Land

From Thomas Shaw, Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant, London, 1767, S. 331 ff.

Dome of the Rock 1875 (Where are all the “Palestinians” in their so-called displaced and occupied holiest site?). The Dome of the Rock was originally a Jewish synagogue, and later, a Christian cathedral but was conquered and occupied by Muslims who converted it to a mosque. The entire region was bathing in blood from the Muslim conquest.

Israeli man riding a donkey

Grinding corn in Jerusalem c. 1870

Felix Bonfils, Entry of Pilgrims into Bethlehem at Christmas time, Palestine c. 1870

Felix Bonfils, Women pray at the Western wall in Jerusalem in 1899.

TERENCE ALAN BROWN says:

July 3, 2015 at 10:31 pm

Admin you’re wrong. No authoritative literature is trusted without supporting evidence, it is your responsibility to substantiate your position. Tghis is what a quality reference looks like, take note! 1. Dio Cassius, History of the Romans, lxix, 12-14, cited by de Haas, History, pp. 55-56. De Haas adds: “In the third of the Schweich Lectures of 1922 the late Israel Abrahams (‘Campains in Palestine from Alexander the Great’ London, 1927) belittles Dio, Cassius’ record of this war, and repeats the suggestion that the Jews were influenced by Hadrian ‘consent to the rebuilding of the Temple.’ This rebuilding myth, depending upon the alleged visit of Hadrian to Palestine on the death of Trajan, has been fully dealt with by Henderson in his biography of Hadrian. All the dimensions of the war, its gravity, and its duration, are fully attested by the inscriptions relating to the legions and by the honors distributed at the end of the campaign. The archeological records, carefully analyzed, support Dio Cassius and not his would-be corrector.
2. Carl Hermann Voss, “The Palestine Problem Today, Israel and Its Neighbors” (Boston, 1953), p. 13.
3. Gunner Edward Webbe, Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, p. 86, cited in de Haas, History, p. 338.
4. De Haas, History, p. 337, citing Palestine Exploration Fund, Quarterly Statement, 1925, p. 197, translation of Latin manuscnpt by a Franciscan pilgrim.
5. Henry Maundrell, The Journal of Henry Maundrellfrom Aleppo to Jerusalem, 1697, Bohn’s edition (London, 1848), respectively pp. 477, 428, 450.
6. Thomas Shaw, Travels and Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant(London, 1767), p. 331ff. De Haas notes: “Hasselquist, the Swedish botanist, munching some roasted ears of’ green wheat which a shepherd generously shared with him, in the plain of Acre, reflected that the white bread of his northern homeland and the roasted wheat ears symbolized the difference between the two civilizations’ Had he known that Mukaddasi boasted in the tenth century of the excellence Of Palestine’s white bread he might have been still more impressed by the low estate to which the country had fallen in seven hundred years…. Hasselquist joined a party of four thousand pilgrims who went to Jericho under an escort of three hundred soldiers. He estimated that four thousand Christians, mostly of the eastern rites, entered Jaffa each year, and as many Jews. The Armenian Convent in Jerusalem alone could accommodate a thousand persons. The botanist viewed the pilgrim tolls as the best resource of an uncultivated and uninhabited country. . ~ . Ramleh was a ruin.” (Emphasis added.) De Haas, History, pp. 349, 358, 360, citing Frederich Hasselquist, Reise nach Palastina, etc., 1749-1752, pp. 139, 145-146, 190.
7. Norman Lewis, “The Frontier of Settlement in Syria, 1800-19 50,” in Charles Issawi, ed., The Economic History of the Middle East (Chicago, 1966), p. 260.
8. Count Constantine F. Volney, Travels Through Syria and Egypt in the Years 1783, 1784, 1785 (London, 1788), Vol. 2, p. 147. According to Volney, “. . . we with difficulty recognize Jerusalem…. remote from every road, it seems neither to have been calculated for a considerable mart of commerce, nor the centre of a great consumption…. [the population] is supposed to amount to twelve to fourteen thousand…. The second place deserving notice, is Bait-el-labm, or Bethlehem, … The soil is the best in all these districts … but as is the case everywhere else, cultivation is wanting. They reckon about six hundred men in this village capable Of bearing arms…. The third and last place of note is Habroun, or Hebron, the most powerful village in all this quarter, and able to arm eight or nine hundred men . . .” (pp. 303-325).
9. Volney, Travels, Vol. 2, p. 431.
10. A. Keith, The Land of Israel (Edinburgh, 1843), p. 465. “The population (viz., of the whole of Syria), rated by Volney at two million and a half, is now estimated at half that amount.”
11. J.S. Buckingham, Travels in Palestine (London, 1821), p. 146.
12. Ibid., p. 162.
13. James Mangles and the Honorable C.L. Irby, Travels in Egypt and Nubia (London, 1823), p. 295.
14. Brockhaus, Alig. deutsch Real-Encyklopaedie, 7th ed. (Leipzig, 1827), Vol. VIII, p. 206.
15. S. Olin, Travels in Egypt, Arabia Petraea and the Holy Land (New York, 1843), Vol. 2, pp. 438-439.
16. Ibid., pp. 77-78.
17. No. 238, “Report of the Commerce of Jerusalem During the Year 1863,” F.O. 195/808, May 1864. “. . . The population of the City of Jerusalem is computed at 15,000, of whom about 4,500 Moslem, 8,000 Jews, and the rest Christians of various denominations. . .” From A.H. Hyamson, ed., The British Consulate in Jerusalem, 2 vols. (London, 1939-1941), Vol. 2, p. 331.
18. James Finn to the Earl of Clarendon, Jerusalem, September 15, 1857, F.O. 78/1294 (Pol. No. 36). Finn wrote further that “The result of my observations is, that we have here Jews, who have been to the United States, but have returned to their Holy Land -Jews of Jerusalem do go to Australia and instead of remaining there, do return hither, even without the allurements of agriculture and its concomitants.” Ibid., 1, pp. 249-52.
19. J.B. Forsyth, A Few Months in the East (Quebec, 1861), p. 188.
20. H.B. Tristram, The Land of1sraek A Journal of Travels in Palestine (London, 1865), p. 490.
21. Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, pp. 349, 366, 367.
22. Ibid., p. 349.
23. Ibid., p. 429.
24. Ibid., p. 366, 375.
25. Ibid., pp. 441-442.
26. Ibid.
27. Jules Hoche, Les Pays des croisades (Paris, n.d.), p. 10, cited by David Landes, “Palestine Before the Zionists,” Commentary, Feb., 1976, p. 49.
28. Brother Lievin de Hamme, Guide indicateur, Vol. Ill, pp. 163, 190.
29. The Reverend Samuel Manning, Those Holy Fields (London, 1874), pp. 14-17. W.M. Thomson reiterated the Reverend Manning’s observations: “How melancholy is this utter desolation! Not a house, not a trace of inhabitants, not even shepherds, seen everywhere else, appear to relieve the dull monotony…. Isaiah says that Sharon shall be wilderness, and the prediction has become a sad and impressive reality.” Thomson, The Land and the Book (London: T. Nelsons & Sons, 1866), p. 506ff.
30. W.C. Prime, Tent Life in the Holy Land (New York, 1857), p. 240, cited by Fred Gottheil, “The Population of Palestine, Circa 1875,” Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 15, no. 3, October 1979.
31. S.C. Bartlett, From Egypt to Palestine (New York, 1879), p. 409, cited in ibid.
32. Ibid., p. 410.
33. W. Allen, The Dead Sea: A New Route to India (London, 1855), p. 113, cited in ibid. 62), p. 466,
34. W.M. Thomson, The Land and the Book (New York: Harper Bros., 18 cited in ibid.
35. E.L. Wilson, In Scripture Lands (New York, n.d.), p. 316, cited in ibid.
36. Colonel C.R. Conder, Heth and Moab (London, 1883), pp. 380, 376.
37. ibid., p. 366.
38. Pierre Loti, La Galilee (Paris, 1895), pp. 37-41, 69, 85-86, 69, cited by David Landes, “Palestine Before the Zionists,” Commentary, February 1976, pp. 48-49.
39. Landes, “Palestine,” p. 49.http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~peters/depopulated.html

ADMIN says:

June 30, 2015 at 5:02 pm

First of all, Jews and Christians are also Arabs. I hope you know that. You mean Muslims, right? Ok, PROVE it with authentic documentation from census records – not some statement from a pro-Palestinian left winger quoting another left winger. Show us original and authentic records, just as we keep showing copies of actual letters, photographs and original statements from people who were there at the time – not from people today who imagine what never existed there.

The mandate was British. There was no water in the area apart from very scarce regions and these regions had Jewish and Christian population who were offspring from the original population that had been there for centuries before Muslim invasion and slaughters.

So where did the Muslims get water from? And WHERE are all the mosques to have served hundreds of thousands of Muslims people claimed lived there?
The only presence of Muslims were Ottoman military personnel. And who were the Ottomans? They were Turks and invaders, not “Palestinians”. The Saudi’s considered them to be kafirs and were eager to have them removed and tried to exploit the British to do so, but planned to take the land to themselves to expand their Islamic caliphate. When they realized they were not going to get a free ride on the expulsion of the Ottomans and free land, they started mass immigration into Israel. This mass immigration began in the 1920’s, and in larger numbers, in the late 1930’s. But Israel was provided to the Jews in 1917 although its actual independence was only acquired in 1948.

The “Arab” (Muslim) presence you talk about is not from actual natives. It’s from a period when Muslim from Egypt and Saudi Arabia started forcing their way in to occupy the area to grab it to themselves, while the British – worried of violent clashes – banned Jews from arriving. It is that periodof ‘hijra’ people use all the time as an argument that the region had more “Arabs” (Muslims) than Jews. No it didn’t. The Muslims forced their way in and Jews were not allowed into their own country. The region had, in fact, a Jewish and Christian majority by far before this mass migration began.

And that is how the war started. The early “Palestinians” were from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. in fact, they continue to own Egyptian and Saudi passports. Now, of course, Muslims have sent people from all across the Middle East and beyond to pretend they are Palestinians. Newly arrived Muslims have to hand in their original passports and received a “Palestinian” one, and then are taught to repeat that they originate from Palestine. That is how jihad is fought there. Many former Muslims have given testimony to this forgery, including Walid Shoebat. To clear this illegal Muslim occupation up the UN should really do a DNA on these Muslims to expose their jihad and their endless lies and propaganda. This same lie is used all over the world by Muslims to encroach on land, including in Myanmar where Muslims have forced their way into the country lying and claiming they were born there when they actually came from Bangladesh. Myanmar today has the same problem as Israel with Muslim encroachment.

The land was barren and uninhabitable and used as a THOROUGHFARE for Arabs crossing between east and west of Transjordan and the British Mandate. In addition, the ancestral land was owned (in actual paperwork) by Lebanese landowners who were Christian in origin and did not live there. Later as the new Jewish settlers came to move to Israel they actually and legally purchased the land although Israel and Jordan had been assigned to the Jewish people due to illegal Muslim occupation through history. So, the Jewish people have given up over 50% of their actual land to Muslims but the Muslims still continue to encroach themselves on even more land.

ADMIN says:

July 1, 2015 at 5:54 am

So you have no proof then? Why would I need census records from 1922 or the 1960’s and 1990s AFTER hijra? This makes no sense. The proof must supply their presence before the borders were drawn, or else the Muslims are lying and never lost any land at all.

“Palestinians” were suppose to have been there for “centuries” before they were “occupied” and even claim their population was around 1 million before the borders were drawn in 1917. They have an average 5 children per woman. Do your own calculations what the real “Palestinian” population would have been if 1 million Muslims with 5 children per woman had actually lived there, and what their numbers would be today.

Every single date you propose is only after 1917 and after Muslims started forcing themselves into the country demanding their caliphate. How is that evidence? Muslims mass immigrated in huge mobs. The Egyptian hijra ended up in Gaza before being stopped to proceed further by the British troops while the Saudi hijra ended up in the West Bank.
The British government witness accounts say Muslims started forcing themselves on Israel when borders were drawn. The situation was so bad that within a few short months hundreds of thousands of Muslims had moved in and refused to leave. In 1920’s and until the end of 1930’s the biggest illegal masses of Muslims poured in. Are you the victim of lost land when you force yourself illegally on a place, or are you the actual occupier? To this day “Palestinians” continue to own passports from Egypt and Saudi Arabia. The Brits could not control their inflow and the intruders remained. Had they forced them all out we would probably not have seen the endless wars we see today. Its similar to the hijra in Europe today where hundreds of thousands of Muslims pour in every year, illegally. And the same flash mobs they superimpose onto to other countries like Myanmar, Thailand, for example.

Give us the real census records of all those “Palestinians” from 1850, 1890, 1900, 1910. If they had such real presence in Israel and their land taken from them they must have been there before the borders were drawn.

Why was Jordan suddenly created? Because Muslims poured in and forced themselves on the region to create their Islamic state. Jordan was initially a part of Israel. The Brits tried to resolve the issue by creating Jordan and leaving the illegals there.