On the Claim by 9th Century Islamic Historian, Baladhuri, that Prior to the Muslim Conquest of Palestine There Were Still 200,000 Jews Living In Caesarea Alone

  So what happened to them? My suspicion is that these Jews either converted to Islam under duress, fled to a different Middle-Eastern or North African locale where they possibly made out better, or stayed and became an oppressed minority (kicking in the jizya, etc.), possibly murdered at some point.......But whatever was, it boldly highlights that the Jews DO have an ancient attachment to Palestine and that this whole effing mess should have been settled in 1937 (through the Peel Commission) when the Arabs were offered the lion's-share of Western Palestine.