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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (12917)	12/6/2001 3:18:24 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

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. Land ownership in Palestine was also complicated by the fact that during the "reforms" of the 19th century the effendi essentially stole the title to their peasants' land. They later sold this land to the Zionists, who found they had to pay off the farmer living on the land after having bought it from the owner. That is, when they didn't sell the Zionists worthless desert or swamp, which there was a good deal of to sell. Large tracts of Palestine were empty in the mid 19th century, when there were only about 300,000 people in the whole area. About 70% of Palestine has been state-owned from Ottoman times on. BTW, Israel did offer compensation to Arab refugees who were land owners. It was generally refused because to accept it would have meant giving up claim to the land.