Obligatorisches Palästina: Landbesitz im Jahr 1945

Literally the Holocaust guys

can’t wait for people to defend ethnic cleansing

Wondering why there are so many blank spots in this map?

Only 25% of Mandatory Palestine was covered by cadastral survey by 1947, meaning that land rights were mostly customary and the colonial government had not officiated most of the land.

Of that which had been recorded, we don’t know about a lot of the erstwhile property claims to make maps in the present day like this because…

…During the 1948 Nakba, Zionist troops deliberately burnt British administrative offices in which property records were kept, ensuring it was impossible for many Palestinians to prove they had any claim to their lands.

Posting this while people in Iran are currently fighting for their freedoms? OP is a bot confirmed

The Ottomans knew what „land ownership“ would lead to, that’s why they never allowed zionists millionaires to buy property.

Once the british took over… well, history is there.

Some context that often gets left out of the discussion.

Traditional land ownership in Palestine was highly informal, to live and work on it for a few hundred years made it „yours“. A lot of land was also considered community owned. Halfway through the 1800s the Ottomans sought to formalize ownership. This caused two great fears to crop up, conscription and taxation. In an effort by land owning peasants to avoid both, a lot of land was not registered to the informal owners but to wealthier city elites who were protected from both due to their connections.

A few decades later Jews begin their mass immigration to Palestine and they start buying up land, *from the Ottoman authorities and the city elites*. So you have a situation where the actual people whose families would have been working and living on the land for hundreds of years had it sold out from under them and the newly arrived owners demanded they vacate the land.

Posted it again award.

Look at all that nothing in the southern region. Yummy sand.