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To: Neocon who wrote (156669)	1/20/2005 1:49:33 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"attempted annihilation of Israel." Nah they were just looking for jabotinsky. Jews are welcome in non-zionist palestine, didnt you know that? The Mufti only wanted Hiter to kill the zionists, not the others. It's just those uppity ones who want to do things like vote, raise a family, eat pizza, live in peace--you know the type. (g)

To: Neocon who wrote (156669)	1/20/2005 2:04:54 PM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

As palestinian reaction comes in the wake of their dispossession As that very 'attempted annihilation of Israel' came in the wake of an obvious concerted effort to take the country Everything comes in the wake of something, doesn't it 'Abandoned property was one of the greatest contributions toward making Israel a viable state. The extent of its area and the fact that most of the regions along the border consisted of absentee property made it strategically significant. Of the 370 new Jewish settlements established between 1948 and the beginning of 1953, 350 were on absentee property. In 1954, more than one third of Israel's Jewish population lived on absentee property and nearly a third of the new immigrants (250,000 people) settled in urban areas abandoned by Arabs. They left whole cities like Jaffa, Acre, Lydda, Ramleh, Baysan (Bisan), Majdal (Ashqelon); 388 towns and villages and large parts of 94 other cities and town, containing nearly a quarter of all the buildings in Israel. Ten thousand shops, businesses and stores were left in Jewish hands. At the end of the Mandate, citrus holdings in the area of Israel totalled about 240,000 dunums of which half were Arab owned. Most of the Arab groves were taken over by the Israel Custodian of Absentee Property. But only 34,000 dunums were cultivated by the end of 1953. By 1956 73,000 dunums were either cultivated or fit for cultivation. In 1951-2, former Arab groves produced one-and-a-quarter million boxes of fruit, of which 400,000 were exported. Arab fruit sent abroad provided nearly 10 per cent of the country's foreign currency earnings from export in 1951. In 1949 the olive produce from abandoned Arab groves was Israel's third largest export, ranking after citrus and diamonds. The relative economic importance of Arab property was largest from 1948 until 1953, during the period of greatest immigration and need. After that, as the immigrants became more productive, national dependence upon abandoned Arab property declined relatively.' iahushua.com