Counter to all the claims by the Anti-Israel crowd, the EVIDENCE shows that Jews obtained land peacefully in Palestine/Israel. THE PEEL COMMISSION OF 1937 FOUND ARAB CLAIMS THAT JEWS STOLE THEIR LAND AS BASELESS. Land shortages were due more in part to massive Arab immigration to Palestine from other Arab countries than to Jewish land purchases. Chapter IX of the Peel Commission states, The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought. Whereas the British resigned much of Palestine to be uninhabitable, the Jews took this barren wasteland, drained the swamps and made the desert bloom. Many of the Jewish-owned citrus groves at the time were situated on sand dunes viewed by the British as uncultivable. It is without doubt that the Jews, in their quest to purchase and acquire more land, did not take any land from Arabs unlawfully. Furthermore, Arab absentee landlords living elsewhere and real estate brokers sold their land to Jews at an inflated cost. As of today, not a single person representing the pro-Palestinian view has been able to contradict this reality using any official documentation, land data or historical records. Furthermore, the Peel Commission admitted that Arabs on the whole, benefited from a growing Jewish presence in the land as they brought economic prosperity and stability to Palestine and its inhabitants. The Arab population shows a remarkable increase since 1920, and it has had some share in the increased prosperity of Palestine. Many Arab landowners have benefited from the sale of land and the profitable investment of the purchase money. The fellaheen are better off on the whole than they were in 1920. This Arab progress has been partly due to the import of Jewish capital into Palestine and other factors associated with the growth of the National Home. In particular, the Arabs have benefited from social services which could not have been provided on the existing scale without the revenue obtained from the Jews. Of course, the truth wont stop haters from spreading their lies, but hopefully people who have only been exposed to the lies before will take some time to rethink their stance on the issue.
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:39:06 +0000
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