I'd like to know that too. I noticed that even in their pro-Pal propaganda, Patria One and the like post paragraphs that indicate that the Jews BOUGHT the land... they try to make it sound ominous and insidious, but the fact is, if they bought the land, then... well... they BOUGHT the LAND! Someone was obviously selling the land, and they bought it. That's LEGAL!
I'd like to know that too. I noticed that even in their pro-Pal propaganda, Patria One and the like post paragraphs that indicate that the Jews BOUGHT the land... they try to make it sound ominous and insidious, but the fact is, if they bought the land, then... well... they BOUGHT the LAND! Someone was obviously selling the land, and they bought it. That's LEGAL!
Remember, the Arab states have never accepted any of the partitions, including the 47 UN partition they want reinstated. They walked out on the vote and went to war.
And the 6% figure of purchased land constantly thrown around here is a gross distortion. If you reference the British Survey of Palestine, 1946 (easy to find in a search), of 26,320,000 dunums of land Jewish landowners accounted for 8.6% (2263 dunums). Most Palestinian sites (they’ll come up in the same search) credit Jews with 6.6% (rounded down by most posters) or 1,734 dunums. Take their figure, why argue about 529 dunums, or split the difference. Per the Survey, 70%, or about 18,424 dunums was state land, mostly in the Negev desert. Turkey lost WWI, it went to Britain. Lose a war, that happens. Israel became a state, Britain ceded it to Israel. Most of the rest belonged to an assortment of Arab and non-Arab landowners, mostly absentee. Over half of it was abandoned in the 48 war, another war the Arabs started and lost.