The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 24)

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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources (ص 24)

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names of powerful families." Thus thousands of dunums were registered
in the names of big landlords and large traces of lands in musha’ became
registered as individual property.
To use the land code to its fullest extent, the Government decided that
taxes would no longer be paid in kind but only in cash, which was a
staggering blow to the peasants, who, being unable to provide the cash,
had to get loans from big land owners or money-lenders, often at very
high interest rates - forty or fifty per cent a year.” If the peasants failed
to pay the loans and the interest back, they often lost their land and were
forced to become tenants. Many peasants in Palestine lost their land in
this way.
In 1867 another law was issued which also had a significant affect on
land ownership in Palestine. This law granted foreigners (non-Ottomans)
the right to own landed property in Palestine.“ This has introduced a new
form of land ownership, absentee Land-lordism. Large estates of lands
were sold to non-Palestinian Arabs, and to Europeans. Of these, two
cases are important to mention. The first was the sale by the government
of the lands of seventeen villages in Marj Ibn-’Amir (near Nazareth) to
some Lebanese businessmen in 1869, and the sale by the Ottoman Sultan
of the lands of further five villages in the same area to the same persons
in 1872.5 The new owners employed the peasants as tenants and engaged
local managers and agents. The Sursugs’ (who became the major
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11 Nabil Badran, "al-Rif al-Filastini Qabl al-Harb al-Alamyiah
al-Ula". Shu’un Filastinyiah. vol. 6/7, No. 7. p. 124.
and C.T. Wilson, Peasant Life in the Holy Land, London,
1906, p. 293
12 Re gamimi and M. Bahjat, Wilayat Beirut. Beirut, 1914,
p.105.
13 Avraham Granott, The Land System in Palestine. p.60
14 G. Fisher, Ottoman Laws. London, 1919, p.14
15 Nevil Barbour and D. Warriner, Nisi Dominus, Beirut, 1969,
pp. 117-8.
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The Arab Revolt of 1936-1939 in Palestine: A Study Based on Oral Sources

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1990-10

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