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To: Gersh Avery who wrote (1)	6/4/2001 1:38:19 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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

To: Gersh Avery who wrote (1)	6/4/2001 1:51:45 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 6945

Gersh most of the land there was parceled out by the Ottoman Empire. The right of the land there is similar to the right of the land in the US, Canada or rest of the Americas. Most of it was bought by Jewish funds since the mid 19th hundred, true for pennies by today standards but so was Manhattan for bought for the equivalent of $25 or so. Still that does not make Manhattan the property of the Mohicans. In general after W.W.II the French and British divided the ME inventing new states and giving families right over vast parts of land Jordan Iraq the Emirates Kuwait Lebanon, Syria were all artificially divided and given to scions of rich families. Algiers, Tunisia Libya, Egypt Sudan etc. fall under the same criteria. Armenians and Kurds were completely ignored or slaughtered as many other minorities of which we do not hear today. Similar situation are all over the world and a distinction should be made between state and citizen. Haim