[quote]thunderbolt23 wrote:
lixy wrote:
Question is - why do you always whine about it?
I’ll make you a deal; if you can find me a concise way to define the pre-1948 lands bought and expropriated by the Zionists, I’ll edit my first post.
Pre-1948? I’d call that British, prior to that, Ottoman. Losing wars has consequences.
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Actually, before 1917, the deeds to lands bought by Jewish National Fund were recorded in Damascus and Beirut, where the Ottoman absentee landlords lived and were headquartered. Jerusalem was not a center of Ottoman government. The deeds, we are told, somehow “went missing” when France organized independence for Lebanon and Syria. Syria claimed rights over all of Lebanon and “Palestine” and Lebanon was, well, Lebanon.
The British, after the unrestrained Arab massacres of Jewish students in 1929 in Safed and Hebron, tilted decidedly in favor acquiescence to Arab militancy. They allowed free Arab immigration into the Mandate during the 1930’s, but limited Jews to 75000. I do not know offhand where new land purchases and recorded in this period. (But it is discoverable. I will let others do that legwork.)
I would like to see if there was any “expropriation” under the Ottomans or the British Mandate–seems unlikely. They were both hostile to the aims of the JNF. Claims by tenants in Palestine, yes, but proof of ownership before 1948 is often not documented. Of course, fiction serves many functions in the eternal jihad.