The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 155)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 155)

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nullifying the musha’a by decree), and the fact that practically all title settlements
were in the coastal and inland plains” where previous and future European Jewish
acquisitions predominated, played a critical role in facilitating these acquisitions.
3.3.2 Jewish European Land Acquisitions
With the onset of the Mandate period, two new features provided the
impetus and framework for the subsequent Jewish European acquisition of land.
Both represented a major break with the period preceding WWI. The first was
organizational in nature, and the second institutional relating to British policies.
The impetus from the organizational feature, related to official Zionist
policies, was derived from enhanced Zionist financial resources and the
formulation of “a specific land strategy.”’° The basic element of this new strategy
was the reversal of past practices (pre-WWI) in the acquisition of land when
acquisitions determined the pattern of settlement and its uses. Now, it is the
settlement requirements such as soil fertility and water availability, but also
availability for nonagricultural purposes,” but “above all, its place in the
evolution of the up building and attainment of a Jewish majority””® that
Avraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine (London: Eyre and
Spottiswoode, 1952), 107.
Avraham Granott, Agrarian Reform and the Record of Israel (London: Eyre
and Spottiswoode, 1956), as reproduced in Walid Khalidi, From Haven to
Conquest (Beirut: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1971), 389.
"Ibid., 391.
Ibid. , 392.
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