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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (22239)	3/26/2002 2:03:17 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

I got the impression that organized violence did not really begin until the effendi began to feel their power threatened. It is of course true that organized violence requires both leaders and followers. I suspect the the displacement of peasants by the sale of tenanted lands had an important role in providing the followers. There is also the question of which violent incidents can be honestly classified as "organized". I am not convinced, for example, that the riots of May 1921 or August 1929 could really be considered "organized". I realize that partisan "historians" ("partisan historian" seems as thorough an oxymoron as anyone is likely to find) have claimed that these incidents were very much organized, just as other partisans claim that they were completely spontaneous. I think the truth lies somewhere in between. Regardless of the extent to which individual incidents were "organized", the fact remains that in 1900 there were 24,000 Jews in Palestine, owning practically no land at all, and in 1929 there were 156,000, owning 14% of the cultivated land. Given the size of the area and its existing population, it is difficult to imagine how a demographic alteration on this scale could fail to create resistance among the existing population, especially since many of the newcomers were quite open about their intention to take political control of the area. The prospect of a land "as Jewish as England is English" could hardly have appealed to the native population.