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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (1)6/4/2001 1:38:19 PM
From: Zeev Hed  Read Replies (1) of 6945
 
I do not have an answer to that question. Prior to 1948, there was a massive effort of buying land from Arab land owners sitting mostly in Damascus, since that land was mostly malaria infected swamps or patches of desert, they did not mind selling it for "peanuts". There after 1948, there were some lands of "absentees", presumably Arabs that left during the 1948 conflict. I remember trying to buy such a piece of land in the early 60' but there was no way i could find to do it. I ended up with what is called "National Land" that cannot be bought, only leased (just as we have "National lands in this country owned by the states of the feds). I am sure that there were some patches of lands taken either forcefully, or that underwent forced sales as well. I have no idea how much of the total land is such.

Zeev
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