Oh hi Monte. Hey, did you hear the one about "Israel is stealing 'Palestinian' land"?
Yes, about 26,670,455 dunams.
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A Survey of Palestine Volume 2 Berman Jewish Policy Archive NYU Wagner
Owned by absentee Ottoman landlords until Mandate was fulfilled and the land was handed over to its legal sovereign owners. A clue the arab muslims refused to have anything to do with the Mandate so gave up their right to anything. It is all in one of your links
Where does it say Ottoman Landlords? It says Arab population. And don't give that crap about possession not meaning ownership.
164. The Arab population, despite the strenuous efforts of Jews to acquire land in Palestine, at present remains in possession of approximately 85 per cent of the land. The provisions of the land transfer regulations of 1940, which gave effect to the 1939 White Paper policy, have severely restricted the Jewish efforts to acquire new land.
A 364 of 3 September 1947
No it says arabs and OTHER MUSLIMS
Destroyed this one once want it again.
163. The Arabs of Palestine consider themselves as having a "natural" right to that country,
although they have not been in possession of it as a sovereign nation.
165. The Arabs consider that all of the territory - of Palestine is by Tight Arab patrimony. Although in an Arab State they would recognize the right of Jews to continue in possession - of land legally acquired by them during the Man-date, they would regard as a violation of their "natural" right any effort, such as partition, to reduce the territory of Palestine.
167. With regard to the promises and pledges made to the Arabs as inducement for their support of the Allies in the First World War, it is to be noted that apparently there is no unequivocal agreement as to whether Palestine was included within the territory pledged to independence by the McMahon-Hussein correspondence. In this connexion,
since the question of interpretation was raised Great Britain has consistently denied that Palestine was among the territories to which independence was pledged.
174. It was also Amir Feisal who, representing and acting on behalf of the Arab Kingdom of the Hejaz, signed an agreement with Dr. Weizmann, representing and acting on behalf of the Zionist Organization. In this agreement, Feisal, subject to the condition that the Arabs obtained independence as demanded in his Memorandum to the British Foreign Office of 4 January 1919, accepted the Balfour Declaration and the encouragement of Jewish immigration into Palestine. The Feisal-Weizmann agreement did not acquire validity, since the condition attached was not fulfilled at the time.
176. With regard to the principle of self-determination, although international recognition was extended to this principle at the end of the First World War and it was adhered to with regard to the other Arab territories, at the time of the creation of the "A" Mandates, it was not applied to Palestine, obviously because of the intention to make possible the creation of the Jewish National Home there. Actually, it may well be said that the Jewish National Home and the sui generis Mandate for Palestine run counter to that principle
