#chadneimim David Isa - Palestinians were offered 45% of Palestine(TransJordan was never referred to as Palestine besides under the British Mandate, but even then they were separate politically, culturally and even had separate borders) to the Palestinians. As we have clearly proved to the nth degree, the land of Israel was largely empty in terms of inhabitants. As a result, most of the land of Israel was owned by wealthy, absentee landowners who had no physical, emotional or spiritual connection to the land and who lived far away in cities like Beirut (Lebanon) and Damascus (Syria). A professional analysis of land purchases between 1880 and 1948 established that three-quarters (75%) of the plots purchased by Jews were from mega-landowners like these, rather than from ordinary families working the soil. In other words, the Jews didn’t take land from anyone; they bought empty and unwanted land from wealthy Arabs living in other countries! This fact has been acknowledged by the modern-day ‘Palestinians’ themselves; for example, the Palestinian-American historian, professor Rashid Khalidi (who is virulently opposed to the State of Israel) has admitted that there were considerable sales to the Jews by “absentee landlords.” In fact, individual Jewish settlers purposely tried to buy land only from wealthy and absent land-owners because they knew that resentment could grow in the land if they bought land from the locals and then evicted them from it. David Ben-Gurion, former prime minister of Israel, instructed the Jewish refugees never to buy land belonging to local “fellahs [peasant farmers] or worked by them. Faisal-Weizmann Agreement Signed on January 3rd, 1919, the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement was an agreement between Jews and Arabs who both wished to set up their own nations in the Middle East. Emir Faisal, son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca and a leader of the Arab Revolt, signed the agreement as a representative for the Arabs. Chaim Weizmann, head of the British branch of the World Zionist Organization, signed the document as a representative for the Jews. T.E. Lawrence represented the British, but did not partake in the signing and acted as a moderator between the two parties. The document was the result of the unique situation both the Arabs and the Jews were left with after World War One. Both parties had been promise land after the war by the British: the Arabs in the MacMahon-Hussein Correspondence and the Jews in the Balfour Declaration. Around June 1918, both Faisal and Weizmann realized that they could expedite the process of receiving their land it they worked together. The agreement has nine articles; each with a condition agreed upon by both Weizmann and Faisal and any disagreements would be settled by the British Government.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 22:19:27 +0000
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