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In the Name of God, the Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful

How the Jewish minority in Palestine became a majority

It is rarely questioned, by many Israelis and Zionists, how the Jewish
minority in Palestine became a majority within a few months in 1948. From
the start, the Zionist leaders were keen on creating a "Jewish State" based
on "Jewish majority" by immigrating Jews to Palestine in mass numbers, which
was primarily motivated by the fleeing European Jews from anti-Semitic
Tsarist Russia and Nazi Germany. When it became increasingly clear to the
Zionist leaders at the time (such as Ben-Gurion and Theodor Herzl) that it
was impossible to achieve Jewish majority solely based on immigration and
natural growth, they concluded that forcible "population transfer" (Ethnic
Cleansing) was the only solution to the "Arab Problem." Year after year, the
plan to ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous people became known
as the "transfer solution." David Ben-Gurion, the first Israeli Prime
Minister, eloquently articulated the "transfer solution" as the following:

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