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Variety ^ | MARCH 22, 2024 | By Todd Spangler

Posted on 03/22/2024 7:06:03 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: nitzy

“You have a lack of knowledge of how things worked in the desert in 1900.”

I’m guessing my knowledge of history would exceed yours. But...if they were that stupid, then as a high school chemistry teacher used to tell us, “The stupid always suffer!”

However, even a very quick look shows they were not that stupid. The Arabs DID protest, and sometimes the Ottoman Empire listened. And sometimes not. The British, did not:

“Under the British Mandate, the land laws were rewritten, and the Palestinian farmers in the region were deemed tenant farmers by the British authorities. In the face of local opposition, the right of the Sursocks to sell the land and displace its population was upheld by the authorities. A number of purchased villages, particularly those in the Jezreel Valley, were inhabited by tenants of land who were displaced following the sale.[32][28] The buyers demanded the existing population be relocated and as a result, the Palestinian Arab tenant farmers were evicted, with some receiving compensation the buyers were not required under the new British Mandate law to pay.[6] Although they were not legally owed any compensation, the evicted tenants (1,746 Arab farmer families comprising 8,730 persons in the largest group of purchases) were compensated with $17 per person.[33][34]

Despite the sale, some former tenants refused to leave, for example as in Afula.[35] However, the new owners considered it was inappropriate for these farmers to remain as tenants on land intended for Jewish labor, driven in particular by the working-the-land ideology of the Yishuv. British police had to be used to expel some and the dispossessed made their way to the coast to search for new work with most ending up in shanty towns on the edges of Jaffa and Haifa.[36]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sursock_Purchases

So what? Seriously, half of the Jews living in Israel are from Jews who were forced out of Arab lands on threat of death - not in 1900 or 1910, but in the 50s, 60s and 70s.

That is the way of the world, and you might as well tell Israel to invade Iraq and Egypt to restore the land rights to the Jews who were forced out!

However, you might consider this:

“From the 1880s to the 1930s, most Jewish land purchases were made in the coastal plain, the Jezreel Valley, the Jordan Valley and to a lesser extent the Galilee.[13] This was due to a preference for land that was cheap and without tenants.[13] There were two main reasons why these areas were sparsely populated. The first reason being when the Ottoman power in the rural areas began to diminish in the seventeenth century, many people moved to more centralized areas to secure protection against the Bedouin tribes.[13] The second reason for the sparsely populated areas of the coastal plains was the soil type. The soil, covered in a layer of sand, made it impossible to grow the staple crop of Palestine, corn.[13] As a result, this area remained uncultivated and underpopulated.[7] “The sparse Arab population in the areas where the Jews usually bought their land enabled the Jews to carry out their purchase without engendering a massive displacement and eviction of Arab tenants”.[13]”

To repeat for emphasis: “This was due to a preference for land that was cheap and without tenants”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_land_purchase_in_Palestine


121 posted on 03/22/2024 8:19:34 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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