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Chapter 1. Wave
of nationalism and socialism (1945-1956) (13)
029. Israel independence(3): Palestinians
extruded by invading Jewish immigrants (2/3)
The land of Palestine was not so wide. It
was wide barren desert and narrow farmland. The fertile land has already been
cultivated by Arabs who were indigenous people. Sheep and camels were grazing
on land, which was unsuitable for cultivation.
The newly migrated Jewish immigrant needed
the farmland at first. Most of them had been poor in the Jewish community in
Europe. Poor Jews looked for new horizon. In contrast, rich Jews did not
migrate to underdeveloped Palestine. Wealthy Jews stayed in Europe or migrated
to rich New World; the United States.
How did Jewish in Palestine get the
farmland? Did the Jews kick out the indigenous Arab farmers by force? No. If
Israel had own independent state, they could clear off Arabs by force. But the
Jews of those days have no such power. The took a measure to buy the land from
the landlord. Arabs were peasant farmers and the land was monopolized by
absentee landlords in the Ottoman Empire.
(To be continued ----)
(From an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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