The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 156)

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determined acquisitions.
Another element of the new strategy was the establishment of blocks of
settlements to bolster isolated ones for security reasons. Finally, there was the
political element as defined by the “national policy” that sought the establishment
of a Jewish state. This element developed in the thirties when partition plans were
being considered. In this regard, the strategy required buying land in areas that had
no or little Jewish presence in order to preempt Jewish exclusion from these areas
in partition plans. This included the acquisition of “reserve lands” even when funds
were not available for immediate settlement.”
The institutional framework that facilitated the European Jewish acquisition
of land was provided by the imposition of the Mandate regime in Palestine. This
role of the mandatory government was spelled out in Article 6 of the Mandate:
“The Administration of Palestine . . . shall encourage in cooperation with a Jewish
agency . . . close settlement by Jews on the land, including State lands and waste
lands.”®* This facilitating role was manifested by the different land transfer and
registration ordinances enacted by the mandate government,®*! in spite of the
usually ineffective attempts at the “protection of cultivators” and the granting of
concessions or long-term leases on substantial areas of land. Nonetheless, and in
MTbid.
80“Mandate for Palestine,” Article 6, see Survey J, 5.
’!For a fuller analysis of the British land policies, including ordinances, see
Barbara J. Smith, The Roots of Separatism in Palestine: British Economic Policy,
1920-1929 (Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1993), 86-115.
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