The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 120)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 120)

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wages to satisfy their European standard of living.
Institutionally, the strategic policy of “conquest of land” and “conquest of
labor” was to be primarily implemented by the Jewish National Fund established in
1901 at the Fifth Zionist Congress, and incorporated in England in 1907.1"
However, by 1919, and according to its own figures, the Jewish National Fund
was able to acquire a total of only 16,366 dunums,''> which represented about 4
percent of the total Jewish acquisitions of 420,000 dunums, and alternatively 2.5
percent if we consider the more dubious government figure of 650,000 dunums.
Lehn and Davis discuss the possible reasons for the failure of the Jewish National
Fund to acquire more land including the lack of sufficient funds, Ottoman
restrictions on land acquisition by foreigners (although bribery and European
pressure partially nullified that), the unwillingness of small Palestinian landowners
to sell land, and finally the lack, as yet, of a “clear Jand-acquisition policy.”'"°
Nonetheless, total Jewish acquisition amounted to between 1.6 percent and 2.5
percent of the total land area of Palestine, depending on whether the actual figure
was 420,000 or 650,000 dunums, respectively.
Regardless of the impact on the Arab society of Palestine, the relative
insignificance of these purchases in quantitative terms brings to the fore again the
nature of land tenure. More specifically, what the relative paucity of acquisitions
147 ehn with Davis, 24.
M5Thid., 36.
US[bid., 37-8.
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