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Jewish Owned Land in Palestine as of 1947
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Posted on September 10, 2001

As of 1947, Jews in Palestine owned UNDER 7% of the Palestine's lands, and after the 1948 war 80% of the Palestinian people were DISPOSSESSED of their homes, farms, and businesses. Scroll below for the source and tabular break down of land ownership.

Share of Palestinian vs. Jewish land ownership as of April 1st, 1943

Category of land
(Fiscal categories)

Palestinians & others Jews Total

Dunums (1000 sq. meters)

Urban 76,662 70,111 146,773
Citrus 145,572 141,188 286,760
Bananas 2,300 1,430 3,730
Rural built-on area 36,851 42,330 79,181
Plantation 1,079,788 95,514 1,175,302
Cereal land (taxable) 5,503,183 814,102 6,317,285
Cereal land (not taxable) 900,294 51,049 951,343
Uncultivable 16,925,805 298,523 17,224.328

Total area:

24,670,455 1,514,247 26,184,702

Percentage

94.22% 5.8% 100%
Roads, railways, rivers, and lakes 135,803

Total Area including roads, railways, etc.

26,320,505

Click here to view the scanned page from which the above data were extracted.
Click here
, for more tabular data about Jewish land ownership per district as of 1946.
Source: A Survey of Palestine prepared by the British Mandate for the UN, p. 566.

 

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Posted by Chris on September 23, 2009 #89774

I wanted to mention, the map indicates land ownership patterns as of 1947- however the sources indicate they mention land ownership 1943. This is not a big discrepancy, but as I want to be precise about the data I use, can you tell me if the map reflects the data of which year. Even if purchases were frozen from 43-47, I'd still prefer to know from what precide year the map is based. Zionists are liable to accuse of misleading if the map is presented along with the supporting data, and say that the presented cannot explain what his data represents. Steering the argument into details is a usual Zionist tactic.

Posted by random person on September 7, 2009 #88397

Prof, Joe Volk, i agree that this site is a pro palestinian site which focuses on the palestinian history on the conflict. But, everything on this site is completely true because all the information on here is a bunch of facts. There is no opinion or point of view coming from anyone. They just state all the facts of whatever happened in history that even Israel itself cant agrue with. Basiclly, this is a very reliable, true and honest source.

Posted by Marisol on May 13, 2009 #77014

Thank you for all the information...you have expanded my interest in what is happening TO the Palestine people. I lost my husband in Vietnam and I swear I would be a peace maker for the Palestine people. I am staying with a Jewish Family in Jerusalem for three weeks and they agree that I can add more spiritual energies to this problem...they agree that their own people are doing the wrong thing. I pray that I can give all I can with my energies to defuse the WAR. Thank you for the space to express myself.

Posted by Kosmic1981 on May 7, 2009 #76316

who ever started thi war i do not care but the state of israel is big enough for jews and muslims. grow up and smart up

Posted by Prof. Joe Volk on May 4, 2009 #76069

Well, I appreciate this site and all you who havelooked at it, but this isn't the most reliable source. Yes, from this website's point of view, the Israelis are to blame. However, this is a pro-Palestinian site. Those of you looking for a history should continue looking for a more neutral resource.

Posted by rvanderwieken on April 7, 2009 #73309

Do you have such a map including the partitionplan of 1948? To see how ownership is divided in the two proposed states? I am also interested in the division in public and private domain. thanks

Posted by AYM on April 7, 2009 #73293

Israels are not right at all. They kill palestinians, blaming them that they killed Israels,bombed and attacked them.Israels dont have their own land,where they are now,it's stealing land.Moreover they have been building a separation barrier in PALESTINIANS LAND!!!We pray to God that Palestinians will win in this cruel war and back their own land!

Posted by Sam on January 30, 2009 #65783

So there was no Isreal ever they killed Palestinians and took there Land that is not right and they should give back everything they took from Palestinians.

Posted by jonjoepa on January 10, 2009 #63044

thereis only one thing to say to bully thives and vagabonds who go around stealing peoples lands and killing women and children blowing there own people up and blaming some one else as to cause war to steal more lands ruthless robbing jewish people the greedyist people in the world they are scared of the germans who tried to wipe them outbut they are the big men and women killing women and children

Posted by Wolf on January 9, 2009 #62957

Deuteronomy says that the Israelites should exterminate the Caananites (Palestinians). They didn't do that, so now there's a problem.

Posted by A Blofeld on February 22, 2008 #29661

While these maps are useful I do have them thanks.
The point is I can find which village was captured, destroyed and or the people expelled.
I am unable to find the date when this happened for instance Tiberius 23 April (during the Mandate, Kfer Byram in the 1950's
it is important to know what was done during the Mandate and what the UK and UIn did about it.

Posted by RoyalKnight on January 23, 2008 #27778

In the Original greek arabic bible The Old Testsment the name Israel doesn't exits were in the old testsment does it say Israel its doesn't say. Too many people look at the Hebrew bible and the rewriting of the old testsment by King James his idea of the bible isn't all real most of it is thoughts just like the Hebrew bible. Jews will alway be far from the promise land because of all the blood shed they have done from generations to generation thou; still today just to cover themselves they blame palestinians for there actions and everytime an arab fights back to protect there family and home

 


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