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"An Anglo-American commission of inquiry in 1945 and 1946 examined the status of Palestine. No official census figures were available, as no census had been conducted in Palestine in 1940, so all their surmises and figures are based on extrapolations and surmises.
"According to the report, at the end of 1946, About 1,220,000 Arabs and 608,000 Jews resided within the borders of Mandate Palestine.
"Jews had purchased 6 to 8 percent of the total land area of Palestine.
"This was about 20% of the land that could be settled and cultivated.
"About 46% of the land was registered in the tax registers to Arab villages, to Arabs living on the land, or absentee owners, and about the same amount was government land.
"However, most of this land was not privately owned.
"The Arabs of Palestine had received much of their land in leases conditional upon cultivation or used land that was part of village commons. The partition borders were drawn to give the Jews a majority within the allotted area of the Jewish state, but the land conquered during the fighting included the populous Arab areas of the Galilee, as well as Arab towns such as Lod and Ramla.
"Greater Jerusalem, which was to be internationalized, included about 100,000 Jews and a larger number of Arabs."
MidEast Web - Population of Palestine
Ok??
It's not 1948 now.