r/InternationalNews • u/ObjectiveObserver420 South Africa • Mar 23 '24

International Hamas denounces Moscow terror attack

https://english.palinfo.com/news/2024/03/23/316342/
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u/Various_Ad_1759 Mar 23 '24

Lol...they bought at most 6% and stole the rest.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24

'It has been estimated that by about June 1947, the Jewish minority in Palestine had taken over 1,850,000 dunams** out of a total of 13 million dunams, mainly as a result of transactions between the above-mentioned Jewish institutions and the big Arab landowners of Palestine."

So closer to 13% to 15% which they wanted to make a separate and individual state.

The remainder of the land in Jewish hands came either from the Mandatory Power (cessions) or from religious charitable organizations. The land ceded by the Mandatory Power was considered to be publicly owned; in some cases it could be made available to a specific community.

Which were only possible due to wars of aggression against then from the surrounding nations.

https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-208638/#:~:text=It%20has%20been%20estimated%20that,big%20Arab%20landowners%20of%20Palestine.

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u/TopolMICBM Mar 23 '24

Ah 13%, so they just stole 87% then?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '24

Did you not read the rest of the post? 13% is how much land was bought, the remaining 87% was from public land that was owned by the government and didn't belong to individual palestinians.

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u/TopolMICBM Mar 23 '24

Ah my bad, they got the other 87% from a European colonizer. So much better.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '24

Ah my bad, they got the other 87% from a European colonizer.

That land never belonged to the locals. Before the British, that land belonged to the Ottoman government.