The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 23)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 23)

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as in the White Paper of 1939’ and the Land Transfer Regulations, which
restricted the areas where settlers could acquire land. Those measures were taken
in response to the increased resistance of Palestinian Arabs, especially during the
1936-1939 Revolt. However, these two measures were seen as coming too late by
Palestinian Arabs and, anyway, were not very effective, especially in the case of
land acquisitions.
1.2.3 Population
There was substantial growth in the population of Palestine during the
Mandate. Between 1918, when the country came under British occupation, and
1946, the population increased by more than one and a half times from 748,128 to
1,942,349.8
However, the most salient feature of this increase was the change in the
composition of the population between the indigenous Palestinian Arabs and the
Jewish European settlers.” In 1918, the Arab population was 688,957 or 92
percent of the total population. By the end of 1946, the Arab population almost
doubled, by natural increase, to 1,324,106, but their share of the total population
Tid., 52-3.
Justin McCarthy, The Population of Palestine: Population History and
Statistics of the Late Ottoman Period and the Mandate (New York: Columbia
University Press, 1990), Table 2.18, 37. All subsequent population numbers are
from same source.
The great majority of Jews who settled in Palestine during the Mandate were
from Europe, although a relatively small number came from Arab countries, and
there were other Jews who lived in Palestine before the organized Jewish European
settlement.
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