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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: frankw1900 who wrote (12911)12/5/2001 11:29:38 PM
From: Hawkmoon  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
The people living in the mandated areas were citizens of the former empire with legal title to their land.

Hardly... Remember, this was the OTTOMAN EMPIRE. Those who owned land were generally nobility, who acted as absentee landlords for the peasant class.

That's one of the reasons the Ottoman Sultan was willing to permit Jewish immigration before WWI. He knew they would bring money, but not be able to threaten his rule since he held ultimate title to everything in the empire he ruled.

There certainly was not such thing as "personal property rights" under Ottoman rule, and nothing resembling "land reform".

Also, the Jews purchased most of the land they obtained in the Yishuv, and it wasn't until the UN partition that the British owned territory (that with no claim by either Jew or Palestinian, and generally confiscated from the Turks) was granted to the Israelis as part of their partition.

So don't get under the illusion that all of these Palestinians held their own personal property prior to the immigration of the Jews. Most of them were working the farms as the Arab equivalent of "sharecroppers" or outright day labor.

And the Jews brought considerable quantities of money and market contacts that they developed back in Europe for Palestinian grown goods.

Hawk
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