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  2. Jewish land purchase in Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Palestine(1945) Land ownership by sub-district Map published in 1945 by UN Ad Hoc Committee on the Palestine Question [1]. In the 1880s, Jews, predominantly Ashkenazi, [2] [3] began purchasing land and properties across Ottoman Palestine in order to expand the collective territorial ownership of the Yishuv.

  3. Sursock Purchases - Wikipedia

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    The Jezreel Valley was considered the most fertile region of Palestine. [3] The Sursock Purchase represented 58% of Jewish land purchases from absentee foreign landlords (as identified in a partial list in a 25 February 1946 memorandum submitted by the Arab Higher Committee to the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry). [4]

  4. Timeline of intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine

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    The Sursock Purchase: The Jewish Colonisation Association makes its first major purchase in the north of Palestine in an acquisition of 31,500 dunums (acres) of land near Tiberias from the Sursock family. This will go on to become one of the largest land purchases for the purposes of colonisation within Palestine. [2]

  5. Intercommunal conflict in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia

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    Jews remained second-class citizens of the Ottoman Empire until its collapse in World War I. [7] This changed when, due to Jewish immigration and land purchase in the late 19th century, they realised that Zionism wanted to make a Jewish state in Palestine. Both Palestinian Christians and Muslims were worried.

  6. A brief history of the Israel-Palestinian conflict - explained

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    But the protests continued, reaching fever pitch in 1933, as more Jewish immigrants arrived to make a home for themselves, the influx accelerating from 4,000 in 1931 to 62,000 in 1935.

  7. Land expropriation in the West Bank - Wikipedia

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    Military order no.25 placed severe restrictions on land sales in the West Bank and for a decade only the Jewish National Fund engaged in purchases. It is forbidden under Palestinian law and custom to sell land to Jews, a fact which entailed creating a variety of methods to transfer property without the sale being visible for long periods.

  8. History of the Arab–Israeli conflict - Wikipedia

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    Tensions between the Zionist movements and the Arab residents of Palestine started to emerge after the 1880s, when immigration of European Jews to Palestine increased. This immigration increased the Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine by the acquisition of land from Ottoman and individual Arab landholders, known as effendis, and establishment of Jewish agricultural settlements ().

  9. Explainer-What is the two-state solution to the Israel ...

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    (Reuters) -The Gaza war has put renewed focus on a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, still seen by many countries as the path to peace even though the negotiating process has ...