How much land was purchased by Jews between the 1880s and the 1930s?
How many Arabs were displaced by those purchases?
How does that number compare to the 700,000 Arabs driven from their homes in 1948?
Jewish land purchase in Palestine - Wikipedia
"From the 1880s to the 1930s, most Jewish land purchases were made in the coastal plain, the
Jezreel Valley, the
Jordan Valley and to a lesser extent the Galilee.
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"This was due to a preference for land that was cheap and without tenants.
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"There were two main reasons why these areas were sparsely populated.
"The first reason being when the Ottoman power in the rural areas began to diminish in the seventeenth century, many people moved to more centralized areas to secure protection against the
Bedouin tribes.
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"The second reason for the sparsely populated areas of the coastal plains was the soil type.
"The soil, covered in a layer of sand, made it impossible to grow the staple crop of Palestine, corn.
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"As a result, this area remained uncultivated and underpopulated.
[10] 'The sparse Arab population in the areas where the Jews usually bought their land
enabled the Jews to carry out their purchase without engendering a massive displacement and eviction of Arab tenants'"
