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Land ownership in Palestine in 1945
Camel driver, the vast majority of Arabs in Palestine were tenant farmers who leased their land from the Ottoman Sultanate during Turkish rule. The few Arab landholders sold their land to Jews.
Arab land sales to Jews is well-documented. Learn to read, ignorant Arab.
Israeli historians have themselves confirmed that about 750,000 Palestinians were driven out of their lands in 1947-1948, so your denials are laughed at even in Tel Aviv.
Dumbass, Arabs were displaced by the war THEY STARTED against the Jews. Population displacement is an inevitable consequence of every war.
Historian Benny Morris, author of the definitive book on the 1948 War, "1948," edifies...
1948 - Morris, Benny - Yale University PressThe Palestinian Arabs were not responsible in some bizarre way for what befell them in 1948. Their responsibility was very direct and simple.
In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29th, 1947 (No. 181), they launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost; and one of the results was the displacement of 700,000 of them from their homes.
...on the local level, in dozens of localities around Palestine, Arab leaders advised or ordered the evacuation of women and children or whole communities, as occurred in Haifa in late April, 1948. And Haifa's Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, did, on April 22nd, plead with them to stay, to no avail.
Most of Palestine's 700,000 "refugees" fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders).
The displacement of the 700,000 Arabs who became "refugees" - and I put the term in inverted commas, as two-thirds of them were displaced from one part of Palestine to another and not from their country (which is the usual definition of a refugee) - was not a racist crime but a war, with religious overtones, from the Muslim perspective, launched by the Arabs themselves.
Camel herder, don't lie because I'll just rip you and your camel new assholes.
It is well documented that the Jews owned about 7% of Palestinian land in 1947.