Who said they were there first? Read any travelogue account (Mark Twain, others, see for example here [link|http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/12/16/Opinion/Opinion.39997.html|From General Grant to General Zinni]) of a trip to the holy land in the 1800's, they all state that the land was desolate and almost empty of inhabitants, where were all those millions of Palestinians? Why is it that the in the early 1900's the population of what is now East Jerusalem was overwhelmingly Jewish?