FACT CHECK · LAND AND MIGRATION: WHO CAME FROM WHERE, AND 1948
Claim: Peel 1937: ~9/10 of Arab growth was births
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Peel 1937: Arabs rose from about 600,000 to about 950,000 since 1920; 'roughly nine-tenths' was natural increase. It admits no accurate count of arrivals is possible, so it is a reckoning.
SOURCE
Palestine Royal Commission Report (Peel), Cmd. 5479, ch. V para 23
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