Contrary to political correctness, Palestinian Arabs have not
been in the area west of the Jordan River from time immemorial;
no Palestinian state ever existed, no Palestinian people was
ever robbed of its land and there is no basis for the
Palestinian “claim of return.” Most Palestinian Arabs are
descendants of the Muslim migrants who came to the area between
1845 to 1947 from the Sudan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, as well as
from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, Morocco, Bosnia,
the Caucasus, Turkmenistan, Kurdistan, India, Afghanistan and
Balochistan. Arab migrant workers were imported by the Ottoman
Empire and by the British Mandate (which defeated the Ottomans
in 1917) for infrastructure projects: The port of Haifa, the
Haifa-Qantara, Haifa-Edrei, Haifa-Nablus and Jerusalem-Jaffa
railroads, military installations, roads, quarries, reclamation
of wetlands, etc. Illegal Arab laborers were also attracted by
the relative economic boom in British Mandate Palestine,
stimulated by Jewish immigration. Accor