Beth’s Reviews > The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace > Status Update

So Palestine has historically been mostly Muslim. “The population of late 19yh century Palestine was 85% Muslim and about 10% Christian” the other 5% included Jews. Then late 19th century TRADE and $ impacts, bringing wealth to the region but also European Christian tourists and pilgrims. They built churches and the tourism industry. Then 1908 the gov’t changed and forced Turkish over Arabic causing friction.