Posted: May 02, 2010 2:55 pm
Moridin wrote:From the link you gave:1800 1840 1880 1900 1914 1938 1948
Europe (Incl. Russia) 1,500 3,950 6,858 8,900 9,100 9,500 3,700
Asia - 300 370 510 500 1,000 1,300
Africa, Middle East 1,000 198 250 375 400 600 700
North & South America - 50 250 1,200 3,500 5,500 5,800
Australia - 2 10 15 - - -
TOTAL 2,500 4,500 7,738 11,000 13,500 16,600 11,500
Table 1. World Jewish Population (thousands)
Do you notice the fall in world population of Jews between 1938 and 1948? Why do you think that is? If the Holocaust did not occur, where did they all go?
There you go. Strange how the drop in population correlates to the time when they were being slaughtered.
Moridin wrote:Agrippina wrote:When the Jews were kicked out of Europe in the pogroms of the late 19th century, they emigrated to the rest of the world, Europe, which is where a lot of the them settled and were later victimized by the Nazis, England, America, South Africa and Australia. My own and my children's ancestors came from Germany (1700s) and Poland (1800s).
But this emigration happened long before the Holocaust, so you cannot use it to claim that the Jews that died in the Holocaust secretly fled to these places, especially as the population demographics you post yourself contradict that position.
I was talking about where the people who populated Israel after 1948 came from. Not before.
Before the war they emigrated to the outside world, and after the war, they started populating Israel.
Aurlito wrote:When did the "real" settlement start?
1946 to 1948 when it was declared a state.