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  • The people did not realise the Zionist Jewish colonisers were planning a heist of their country. Weird way of you to frame it with hindsight.

    Well, it’s an observed fact of human nature that one cannot be both stupid and smart at the same time. The Jews outmaneuvered the Palestinians politically, and ultimately outfoxed them (and the UN). I don’t think it’s plausible that “no one realized”, but Palestinians were not well organized, not well educated, and they naively placed their faith and trust in the lying promises & empty processes of the British and to a lesser extent, the French, for the 50 years before 1948. At least in Palestine. Transjordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and the Saudis seemed to make out ok with the promises made by the British and French, at least in the beginning. Even Egypt did ok, at least until the mid 1950’s when everything in the region began to curdle and sour due in part to internal rivalries among Arab states. Nasser’s egotism and cult of personality. Rivalry & dislike between cousin monarchs in neighboring countries. The rise of Baathism. Constant pivoting between eastern bloc and western bloc. But that was all just more opportunity for the Jews to exploit to their own advantage, which they readily and adroitly did. Again and again.




  • For 1200 years under the Ottomans, the Ottomans owned everything, and the local inhabitants were simply allowed to reside on the land
    

    Not true again, read about the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 for instance.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Land_Code_of_1858

    In 1858 the Ottoman Empire introduced The Ottoman Land Code of 1858, requiring land owners to register ownership. The reasons behind the law were twofold. (1) to increase tax revenue, and (2) to exercise greater state control over the area.

    Opposition

    Small farmers, however, saw no need to register claims, for several reasons:

    Land owners were subject to military service in the Ottoman Army
    General opposition to official regulations from the Ottoman Empire
    Evasion of taxes and registration fees to the Ottoman Empire
    

    Outcome

    The registration process itself was open to manipulation. Land collectively owned by village residents was registered in the name of a single landowner, with merchants and local Ottoman administrators registering large stretches of land in their own name. The result was land that became the legal property of people who may have never lived there, while locals, even those who had lived on the land for generations, became tenants of absentee owners.


    These were the large tracts Jews bought. Non-Jewish “owners” sold out their own “people” for profit in Jewish money. Later in the Ottoman era, when buying inhabited land became troublesome due the land containing existing inhabitants, it became more common for such purchase agreements to stipulate removal of occupants before payment. Owners- even Arab owners- willingly complied with this contractual stipulation, for Jewish cash. Laws can read one way, but the way they are put into practice in reality can hobble them or completely reverse their intent.