In 1860, entire Algerian tribes immigrated en masse to Safed. The
Muslims of Safed, are “mostly descended from these Moorish settlers and
from Kurds that came earlier to the city.”
-De Haas, Jacob, History of Palestine, The Last Two Thousand Years, New York, 1934, p. 425.
“I learn of the arrival of about 6,000 of the Beni Sukhr Arabs at Tiberias
who are very seldom seen this side of the Jordan.”
-British Consul James Finn in apers Relating to the Distubances in Syria, no. 2, June 1860, p. 35.
After 1870, “the [Turkish] forward policy included…the planting of Circassian colonies in the country.”
-Smith, CG in Studies on Palestine During the Ottoman Period, Jerusalem, 1975, p. 93.
“This illegal [Arab] immigration was not only going on from the
Sinai, but also from Transjordan and Syria, and it is very difficult to
make a case out for the misery of the Arabs if at the same time their
compatriots from adjoining states could not be kept from going in to
share that misery.”
-Palestine Royal Commission Report, London: 1937