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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (2630)10/4/2001 5:36:54 PM
From: Thomas M.  Read Replies (2) of 281500
 
If Palestine was so barren, then why did Moshe Dayan say that, "Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages . . . There is not one place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population" [ Ha'aretz Interview, April 4, 1969 ]?

Ooops! -g-

It is well documented that Palestine had considerable agriculture in the 1800s, before the influence of Zionists. My previous link is just the tip of the iceberg.

ukar.org

<<< While in Palestine in 1891, when Jews owned less than one per cent of the land, the Jewish moralist and philosopher Ahad Ha'am observed that "throughout the country it is difficult to find fields that are not sowed." In 1930, when Jews owned about four per cent of the land, Zionist official Arthur Ruppin wrote that displacement of Arab farmers was inevitable "since there are hardly any more arable unsettled lands in Palestine."

By 1944, when Jews owned about 5.5 per cent, the area of the Negev alone (Palestine's only "desert") under cultivation by Palestinians was three times the area cultivated by the Jewish community in all of Palestine after more than 60 years of loudly trumpeted "pioneering." In short, the Palestinians made the desert bloom and they had been doing so for centuries. Israel's much-touted expansion of cultivated land since 1948 was more apparent than real as it involved mainly the "reclamation" of farmland belonging to Palestinian refugees. >>>

Tom
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