Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
from Part 1 - THE LAND AS PLACE
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps and Photographs
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: From the Particular to the Global and Back to the Project
- Part 1 THE LAND AS PLACE
- The Land of Israel/Palestine
- Jerusalem
- The Ownership of Land
- The Theology of the Land
- Generations of God Gifting the Land
- Conquering in the Name of God
- One God: Three Faiths
- The Word of God
- Scripture from a Palestinian Christian Perspective
- Scripture from a Muslim Perspective
- Scripture from a Jewish Perspective
- A Timeline from 1840–1967
- The Land and Population in Modern Day Israel/Palestine
- Settlers and Settlements
- Zionism: Secular and Religious
- Politics, Wars and New Beginnings
- Peacemakers: Jewish, Christian and Muslim
- The Wall, the Fence, the Barrier
- The Law Ancient, the Reality Today
- Part 2 LIBERATION THEOLOGY
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Scripture Index
Summary
The Jewish population has increased dramatically in the last two centuries. In 1832, there were 1,500 Jews in Palestine. In 1860 the Jewish population had grown to 15,000 and in 1881 the Jewish population was 22,000. By 1944 there were 614,229 Jews and 1,363,387 Arab Palestinians (These figures are from the Palestinian Society of Demographic Education). At the time of the Balfour Declaration, in November, 1917, when the secular Zionist Movement was officially recognized, 92% of the population in Palestine were Arab Muslims and Christians (Ellis 1999: 19). Four years later, in 1921, there were 590,000 Muslims, 85,000 Jews and 89,000 Christians (Ateek 1989: 29). As we have seen, by May of 1948, when the State of Israel was declared, as was noted in a preceding paragraph, 800,000 of the resident Palestinians had left Israel as a result of being driven out by Zionist Jews entering the land. As of 2003–2004, the combined population in Israel and the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights was 51% Jewish and 49% Palestinian Arabs (Population Statistics/Demographics of Israel-Palestine).
In 2006, the Bishop's Committee on Justice and Peace in Israel/Palestine, in the Episcopal Diocese, in the western part of the State of Washington, published a fact sheet stating that the population in Israel/Palestine, at that time, was comprised of 18% Arab Palestinians Muslims, 72% Israeli Jews and 10% Arab Palestinian Christians. Several years later the Arab Palestinian Muslim population in Israel/Palestine is growing.
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- Shalom/Salaam/PeaceA Liberation Theology of Hope, pp. 65 - 66Publisher: Acumen PublishingPrint publication year: 2008