Pintohoo,
Many times has Israel offered the Muslims surrounding a two state solution and always been refused.
They want extinguishment of the Israelis who have been driven from many lands and who consolidate in Israel.
Around 21% of Israel`s population is Arab who are supported in the professional fields and enter parliament.
Where are Iraq`s 135,000 Jews , Egypt`s 75,000 , Syrian`s etc.
To aid you with your biases.
Some history of Jewish numbers in the area:-
The
Torah contains a number of statements as to the number of (adult, male) Hebrews that left Egypt, the descendants of the seventy sons and grandsons of
Jacob who took up their residence in that country. Altogether, including
Levites, the number given is 611,730. For non-Levites, this represents men fit for military service, i.e. between twenty and sixty years of age; among the Levites the relevant number is those obligated in temple service (males between twenty and fifty years of age). This would imply a population of about 3,000,000. The Census of
David is said to have recorded 1,300,000 males over twenty years of age, which would imply a population of over 5,000,000. The number of exiles who returned from
Babylon is given at 42,360.
Tacitus declares that
Jerusalem at its fall contained 600,000 persons;
Josephus, that there were as many as 1,100,000 slain in the destruction of Jerusalem in CE 70, along with 97,000 who were sold as
slaves. However, Josephus also qualifies this count, noting that Jerusalem was besieged during the Passover. The majority of the 1,197,000 would not have been residents of the city, but rather were visiting for the festival. These appear (writes Jacobs)
[2] to be all the figures accessible for ancient times, and their trustworthiness is a matter of dispute. 1,100,000 is comparable to the population of the largest cities that existed anywhere in the world before the 19th century, but by area, the Old City of Jerusalem is just a few percent the size of such cities as
ancient Rome,
Constantinople,
Edo period Tokyo and
Han dynasty Xi'an. The difficulties of commissariat in the
Sinai desert for such a number as 3,000,000 have been pointed out by
John William Colenso.
In the
Bar Kokhba revolt of 132–135 CE, 580,000 Jews were slain, according to
Cassius Dio (lxix. 14). According to
Theodor Mommsen, in the first century C.E. there were no fewer than 1,000,000 Jews in Egypt, in a total of 8,000,000 inhabitants; of these 200,000 lived in
Alexandria, whose total population was 500,000.
Adolf Harnack (
Ausbreitung des Christentums, Leipzig, 1902) reckons that there were 1,000,000 Jews in Syria (which included Lebanon) and the areas east of the Euphrates at the time of
Nero in 60's CE, and 700,000 in Judea, and he allows for an additional 1,500,000 in other places, thus estimating that there were in the first century 4,200,000 Jews in the world.
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