A three-hundred year old book has been found with a census (of some kind) of old Palestine, the Holy Land.
You can read it (in Latin and Greek) on Google Books, or at Archive.org.
The author, Adriaan Reland, either went to the Middle East himself, or stayed home in the Netherlands, depending on where you read about him.
I can't find the translation, but another blogger says he stumbled onto the book in a bookstore, and it verifies the claim that there were extremely few Arabs in Palestine in 1695.
Also, not one place-name in Israel is linguistically Arabic, and there was no Palestinian people or nation.
I wish I could read Latin.
Here, read the blog yourself.
Update: Apparently nobody has actually read the book. I find that this makes me very skeptical.
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