It happened in Palestine, millions of European migrants overwhelmed the indigenous people and the result has been anarchy.
An inaccurate account of what happened.
The statement was not that inaccurate.
I thought it was, because at the time of partition the proportion of Jews to Palestinians was only 30%.
Finally, in 1947 the United Nations decided to intervene. However, rather than adhering to the principle of “self-determination of peoples,” in which the people themselves create their own state and system of government, the UN chose to revert to the medieval strategy whereby an outside power divides up other people’s land.
Under considerable Zionist pressure, the UN recommended giving away 55% of Palestine to a Jewish state – despite the fact that this group represented only about 30% of the total population, and owned under 7% of the land.
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/history/
The powers that be(the British government) stood aside and let it happen,
Again, not accurate.
Actually Palestine was the Mandate of Palestine, administered by Britain from about 1917 to partition, during which time the British allowed massive Jewish immigration into Palestine against the wishes of the Arabs, hence the Arab riots. It was a gross injustice against the indigeneous peoples.
The British tried to control immigration. Most of the immigration was illegal immigration, but even then the ratio was only 30% Jews at the time of partition.
Okay, we interpret overwhelmed in different ways, you seeing it as numerically overwhelmed.
The British allowed immigration in large numbers, then later tried to restrict it. I think you are wrong that most immigration was illegal, at least pre WW2. Jews legally purchased land, albeit land occupied by the British Empire.
I think, again, WWT, you're not entirely accurate. As I recall (from research, not being there.
) the British set limitation on Jewish immigrants by only allowing in immigrants with £1,000 (I think £1,000 then was somewhere near £50,000 now).This was later lowered to £500,or it may have been t'other way round.
However once the Arabs objected, an annual limit was applied, except that the British allowed something called "The Jewish Agency" to issue immigration visas and that organisation totally disregarded the annual limit.
Land was bought by the Jews under the auspices of "The Jewish Land Fund" or something like that.
However, there was still far more illegal immigration going on.
But even then, at partition, there were 30% Jews who owned only 3% of land.
Under the partition, they were awarded 55% of the Palestinian land.
So going back to the original comment by Vinty, and as you've said the two are not comparable, the indigenous people were not overwhelmed by immigrants. It was the partition that created tension and conflict.
