1939 Arabs in the Holy Land
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill noted the Arab influx. Churchill, a veteran of the early years of the British mandate in the Holy Land, noted in 1939 that:
βFar from being persecuted, the Arabs have crowded into the country and multiplied till their population has increased more than even all world Jewry could lift up the Jewish population.β
Source: http://hm-holyland.blogspot.com/2011/12/arabs-in-holy-land-natives-or-aliens.html