The Claim of Dispossession By Arieh L Avneri
Total propaganda and garbage akin to From Time Immemorial by Peters Note the author s credentials pretty much nonexistent His sources are at odds with actual sources ie UK gov t reports at the time In essence this piece of propaganda attempts to whitewash ethnic cleansing when one group is doing it 303 This book is a result of painstaking and indepth research which exposes the lie of Islamic and far left propagandists that the Arabs of the Holy Land were dispossessed of their land by the Zionist movement prior to the refoundation of the State of Israel. By comprehensive sourcing of the documenatation available from between 1878 and 1948 Avneri proves that most of those Arabs that lived in Palestine in 1948 were descendants of migrants over the previous hundred years from Egypt Syria Transjordan Iraq Libya Sudan Turkey the Caucuses Persia Bosnia and elsewhere. In the intitial chapter he proves the massive Egyptian colonization of Palestine during the 19th century and how the Egyptians founded hundreds of settlements across the Holy Land The Egyptians displaced a number of Druze who had indeed been living in Palestine for centuries unlike the Arabs During the British mandate a large number of migrants came to Palestine from the Hauran region of Syria They were attracted by the development and employment by the Zionist enterprises as well as being given incentives by the British who reneged on their 1917 promise of a Jewish homeland in the ancient Land of Israel. Avneri carefully details the population flow and ebb and explains through careful documentation and calculation how the massive increase in Moslem population during the last decades of Ottoman rule and during the British mandate could not have been the result of natural increase. During the pogroms against Jews in the Holy Land by the Arabs in 1920 1921 1929 and 1936 1939 many mercenaries came to help spread terror against the Jewish returnees especially from Lebanon and Syria. A large part of the book describes how the land was bought with huge sums by the Jews from absentee Arab landlords and Arab tribes but still the Jews did all they could to help the Arabs there farm the land and contributed to health education and development of the Arab populations. He speaks of the extreme idealism of the Jewish settlers who turned desert and swamp into productive land as it was in ancient times before the Romans expelled the Jews from their homeland The Jewish settler looked upon himself as coming to conquer the desert and redeem the land from it s desolate stateHe was going to turn the curse of the unoccupied land into a blessing. With extreme fairness even after they had bought the land the Zionists strove to enable the tenant farmer to settle on part of the land which will remain in their hands adjacent to plots purchased by the Zionist agencies and to give them in addition to the land sums of money to develop intensive agriculture. The author then go s on to describe the 1948 War of Independence and describes how hundreds of thousands of Arabs were commanded by their leaders to leave Palestine and did so to make way for Arab armies to sweep in an anihilate the Jews. Jewish resistance to the threat of anihilation and the rout of several Arab armies turned the myth of Arab displacement fostered by the Arab leaders into tragic reality Hundreds of thousands of Arabs were uprooted from their homes as the Palestinian irregulars retreated and the regular armies of the Arab states fled Flight and exile were the bitter fruits of a war that the Arab leadership had initiated and not the result of a calculated Zionist policy of displacement and uprooting. He also proves how many of the Arab refugees were in fact returning to their old villages of the Arab countries they had come from after having only a lived in the Land of Israel for a few years. Avneri also details the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees who fled from Arab lands after the pogroms initiated against defenceless Jewish communities across the Arab world in revenge for the refoundation of the State of Israel. As the author concludes Zionism as a movement for the rennaisance and liberation of the Jewish people sought to achieve it s goal by contstructive deeds As a matter of last resort the Jews took to arms to defend their very livesAs regards those who dispute the findings of the book they are underpinned by very carefully researched evidence that are available in the footnotes. Both books are vital to understand the real facts and events behind the Arab Israeli conflict 303
| The Claim of Dispossession By Arieh L Avneri |
| 1351484990 |
| 9781351484992 |
| English |
| 303 |
| ebook |