<Li> 1911: David George Hogarth, "Syria". Encyclopædia Britannica: "Population.--The actual population of Syria is over 3,000,000 spread over a superficial area of about 600,000 sq. m., i.e. about 5 ​ ⁄ persons to the square mile . But this poor average is largely accounted for by the inclusion of the almost uninhabited northern steppe land and those parts of Syria, which are settled show a much higher rate . Phoenicia and the Lebanon have the densest population, over 70 to the square mile, while Palestine, the north part of the western plateau east of Jordan, the oases of Damascus and Aleppo, the Orontes valley, and parts of Commagene, are well peopled ." </Li> <Li> 1913: Al - Karmil (newspaper): "We hoped that they (the Ottoman Party for Administrative Decentralization) would rid us of Zionist threats and dangers . We comprised a group of people who had hoped the best for their leaders . This team possessed tremendous power; not to ignore that Palestine, their country, was part of the Ottoman Empire ." </Li> <Li> c. 1913: Ruhi Khalidi, Zionism or the Zionist Question, according to Haim Gerber "It is noteworthy that whenever the name of the country appears, it is always Palestine, never southern Syria or anything else ." </Li> <Li> 1914: Four days after Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire at a British Cabinet meeting on 9 November 1914, David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, "referred to the ultimate destiny of Palestine ." </Li>

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