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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (22198)	3/25/2002 5:29:18 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

That was then. This is now. Lotta folk think they're back then. Those that are really back then are dead. So, what is the state of those who think they're back then?

To: Hawkmoon who wrote (22198)	3/26/2002 12:36:31 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

They had to purchase their property, which many of the Palestinians were only too happy to sell (so much for historic ties to the land) This is an issue that is often distorted. The overwhelming majority of theses sales were by absentee landlords: between 1900 and 1914 only 4.3% of those who sold land to immigrant Jews tilled the land they sold. Traditionally when land sold by tenants was sold, the tenants - who were the ones with the historic ties to the land - remained where they were, and simply paid their rents to the new landowner. When the land was sold to Jewish settlers, though, the tenants were evicted, with little or no warning. One single sale in 1920 by the Sursock family (a Lebanese family, residing in Europe) resulted in the eviction of 8000 peasants. Those evicted ended up in urban shantytowns, where they became in essence the first wave of Palestinian refugees. Like later waves, they were easily recruited by those who had a vested interest in violent resistance to further settlement. There was nothing illegal about this practice, but the scale on which it occurred made violence quite inevitable.