Land Ownership In Palestine by Sami Hadawi

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• At the end of the page, please note that it seems that Mr. Hadawi was in charge of compiling Village Statistics series:
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15. Please note that state domain lands = titled lands for the state + public lands + un-deeded land which was 85% of Beersheba. State domain lands become state-owned ONLY after the land comes under the Land Settlement Law (a.k.a farzz) and that only impacted 17% of the lands as of Nakba. The lands deeded to the state were under 1%, see Survey of Palestine page 566. Mr. Hadawi clarified point this in the last paragraph on page 17 below.
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17. Pay attention to the note at the end of the page which Wikipedia's editors ignored completely. Much to our surprise, David Ben-Gurion (the founding father of the "Jewish state") asserted similar data (concerning public and private lands) when he addressed the 19th Zionist Congress in Oct 1935 (see Jewish Frontier, Oct. 1935 Edition, page 26-27):
18. Notice how Mr. Hadawi made it obvious that Jewish corporations bought the most fertile land (first grade), which explains why they were the most productive. On the other hand, Palestinians made poor quality lands productive. Remind who bloomed the desert please:
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