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Note 47/THIEVES AND VILLAINS

[47]

”In the 1880s, Jews, predominantly Ashkenazi,[2][3] began purchasing land and properties across Ottoman Palestine in order to expand the collective territorial ownership of the Yishuv. Large Jewish corporations and private Jewish buyers led this effort through multiple intermittent transactions that continued after Mandatory Palestine was established in 1918. The largest of these arrangements, known as the Sursock Purchases, resulted in the procurement of the Jezreel Valley and the Bay of Haifa by the 1930s. The purchase of land was often accompanied by the eviction of the Arab tenants”
WIKIPEDIA
JEWISH LAND PURCHASE IN PALESTINE
”Director of Development Lewis French established a register of landless Arabs in 1931.[24] Out of 3,271 applicants, only 664 were admitted and the remainder rejected.[24] Porath suggests that the number of displaced Arabs may have been considerably larger, since French’s definition of “landless Arab” excluded those who had sold their own land, those who owned land elsewhere, those who had since obtained tenancy of other land even if they were unable to cultivate it due to poverty or debt, and displaced persons who were not cultivators but had occupations such as ploughman or laborer.”
WIKIPEDIA
JEWISH PURCHASE OF LAND IN PALESTINE/IMPACT
ON THE LOCAL ARAB POPULACE
ORIGINAL SOURCE
WIKIPEDIA
JEWISH PURCHASE OF LAND IN PALESTINE
Between 1922 and 1935, the Jewish population rose from nine percent to nearly 27 percent of the total population, displacing tens of thousands of Palestinian tenants from their lands as Zionists bought land from absentee landlords.”
ALJAZEERA
THE NAKBA DID NOT START OR END IN 1948
23 MAY 2017
SEE FOR THE WHOLE ARTICLE, NOTE 40

ART. 2.

The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home, as laid down in the preamble, and the development of self-governing institutions, and also for safeguarding the civil and religious rights of all the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion.

THE PALESTINE MANDATE

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/Palmanda.Asp

WIKIPEDIA

JAFFA RIOTS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_riots

”The report noted that the violence by Arabs on the Jews was apparently triggered by a clash between the MPS (Miflagah Po’alim Sotzialistim) or Bolsheviks and the authorized Jewish Labour Party but that this “could not have been sufficient to give rise to more than a street riot of the ordinary kind”.

In the summary of the report the grievances of the Arabs were listed as follows:

  1. The British in Palestine, now led by a Zionist, had adopted “a policy mainly directed towards the establishment of a National Home for the Jews, and not to the equal benefit of all Palestinians”.
  2. An official advisory body to the government in Palestine, the Zionist Commission, placed the interests of the Jews above all others.
  3. There was an undue proportion of Jews in the government.
  4. Part of the Zionist program was to flood the country with people who possessed “greater commercial and organizing ability” which would eventually lead to their gaining the upper hand over the rest of the population.
  5. The immigrants were an “economic danger” to the country because of their competition, and because they were favored in this competition.
  6. Immigrants offended the Arabs “by their arrogance and by their contempt of Arab social prejudices”.
  7. Owing to insufficient precautions, Bolshevik immigrants were allowed into the country leading to social and economic unrest in Palestine.”
 
HAYCRAFT COMMISSION/CONCLUSIONS
 
ORIGINAL SOURCE
WIKIPEDIA
HAYCRAFT COMMISSION
”As colonial overlords, the British were exceptional record-keepers. Backed by empirical data, they compiled report after report in an attempt to monitor the tensions erupting all over Palestine. These reports showed that the distrust between the Palestinian and Zionist populations intensified after the British military administration of Palestine and the issuance of the Balfour declaration. The Haycraft report, for example, concluded that despite Zionist accusations the actions of the Palestinians were not at all motivated by antisemitism, but rather by the British military administration favoring the Zionist settlers to the detriment of the Palestinians”
INTRODUCTION TO PALESTINE
THE MANDATE AND THE NAKBA
SEE FOR THE WHOLE ARTICLE, NOTE 43

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