The Claim of Dispossession

This study sheds new light on the historic background of the contemporary Palestinian problem

This study sheds new light on the historic background of the contemporary Palestinian problem. Avneri traces the spread of Jewish settlements over the seventy-year period before the establishment of the State of Israel, in order to see how it affected the existing Arab community's economy and social and cultural institutions. He demonstrates that there is no historical evidence for the eviction of the Palestinians from Israel previous to the founding of the state. Most of those who left afterwards did so on their own volition.

Autorentext

Arieh L. Avneri

Zusammenfassung
This study sheds new light on the historic background of the contemporary Palestinian problem

Inhalt
One: The Arab Claim of 1300 Years of Uninterrupted Possession; Two: Landscapes and Faces on the Eve of Jewish Settlement; Three: The Rise of a Class of Arab Landowners; Four: Jewish Settlements Under Turkish Rule; Five: The Mandate During the Years 19201935; Six: The Struggle with the Mandatory Government Over State Lands; Seven: The Acquisition of Private Agricultural and Urban Lands between the Two World Wars; Eight: Establishing the Future Boundaries of the State; Nine: The Sellers of Land; Ten: Ten Rehabilitation of the Land; Eleven: Zionist Land Policy; Twelve: The Arab Community in Palestine, Late 1947; Thirteen: Partition, War and Their Aftermath; Fourteen: The Summing up