Land Ownership in Palestine/Israel

 
By Nasser Abufarha

http://www.ap-agenda.org/nasser/nasser3.htm

Control over territories, land use, and ownership are central issues to the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. What follows is a historical overview of the system of land ownership in Palestine, including an examination of the methods by which the Israeli government and Jewish agencies acquired land in Palestine.

Palestinian Land Ownership

The majority of the lands in Palestine were the properties of the Palestinian rural population, the fellahin. In the process of the creation of the state of Israel, over 418 Palestinian villages were depopulated and destroyed. Bedouin semi-nomadic tribes were displaced and 104 Palestinian populated villages remained under Israeli control.

Understanding the culture of the fellahin is key to understanding the system of land ownership in Palestine. Referring to the fellahin of Palestine as peasants, as they are often referred to, is an unfair misrepresentation of Palestinian society and culture to say the very least. A peasant in European culture is a farming worker with little or no land ownership. The fellahin of Palestine are rural farming communities with communal shared ownership of the land and own the means of cultivation.

The concept of the peasant did exist in the culture of the fellahin and the term applied to it is qatruz. The qatruz is a farming worker with little or no land ownership that has no possession of working animals. The qatruz would work for landowners for a share of the harvest. Although the concept of the peasant (qatruz) existed in Palestinian society, it was not widespread due to the communal nature of the culture of the fellahin.

To understand the land ownership system in the society of the fellahin, one needs to understand the concept of the feddan. There is widespread misconception that the feddan is a unit of measurement for an area of land. This is an inaccurate understanding of the concept. The feddan is a measurement of a share of land that varies in size from village to village and may vary from year to year, even within the same village.

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The Jewish state’s Jewishness reflected in a return visit

by Lasse Wilhelmson

http://lassewilhelmson.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/the-jewish-states-jewishness-reflected-in-a-return-visit/

Bethlehem

I arrive at Bethlehem along the same motorway as all tourists, in a taxi from the Ben Gurion airport. They arrive in coaches with their Jewish guides. Pilgrims from all over the world crowd into the Nativity Church on Manger Square. Perhaps the holiest place in the world for Christians? They buy souvenirs and go back home again as if the Palestinians do not exist. Opposite the Church, lies the prestigious Peace Centre, funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA.

The town is situated just south of Jerusalem and surrounded by The Wall and by fences. Check-points further limit people’s access and they are resigned to finding inconvenient diversions. Arbitrary travel permits for areas outside the town tear apart families that have lived in and around Bethlehem for thousands of years.

On my first evening in Bethlehem I experienced music of a rare and emotional kind. A Palestinian violinist, Lamar Elias, only 14 years old, was the main attraction and there were many children in the audience. She played sonatas by Dvorak and Vivaldi and ended up, with a trio, playing a piece typical of Arabic music, with its billowing, endless rhythmic melodies. It was quite astounding how this young woman presented and played her pieces to a large audience with such ease and grace.

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Multi Talentless United (Israel Hasbara)

Gilad Atzmon Explains the Jews

More or less, i would say...

Nick Shabbos Goy Clegg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVTnOq5DVfQ 

Nick Clegg, the laughable Lib Dem leader, probably the most pathetic character in the history of British politics, has done it again. In a desperate attempt to appease some Jewish donators, he produced a shameless endorsement of Jewish politics.

I guess that someone within the dysfunctional Lib Dem orbit better advise Clegg that Zionists do not like their subordinates to manifestly bend over. They somehow prefer their Shabbos Goyim to operate delicately and in a clandestine manner.   

Gilad Atzmon On Dieudonné, The Quenelle and Christ Killing

I was recently interviewed by Romain Red for ERTV. I am very happy with this short clip and I am sure that it will upset a few.

Gilad Atzmon et la quenelle de Dieudonné by ERTV

More On The Way To Meritocracy

By Gilad Atzmon

The Daily Telegraph revealed today that one in five university graduates becomes a millionaire. More than two million British degree-holders have a net worth of £1m or more as new statistics reveal the education gap between rich and poor”

£1M is a lot of money, it is certainly not sufficient to define the term ‘rich.’  However, the above confirms that social mobility in Britain (and in the West in general) is deeply associated with cognitive ability. The clever move up and swiftly, while the intellectually challenged are left behind.

David Willetts, the universities minister, told The Telegraph that the figures were “more evidence of why going to university is a very good deal.”  Willets may be correct, yet not many youngsters can afford tuition fees anymore. University tuition fees tripled in Britain in recent years and in practice, academia has priced itself beyond the reach of the poor.

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Impressions @ The Crypt

GILAD ATZMON & OHE: JAZZ @ CRYPT by bongolicious

Impressions at the Crypt, Camberwell, London 9.5.2014

Ross Stanley - Piano

Yaron Stavi- Bass

Eddie Hick - Drums

Gilad Atzmon -Alto Sax

A Chat With Brendon O'Connell

Here is an interview with Australian national security whistleblower: Brendon O'Connell taking questions from the web designer of http://SouthEastAsiaNews.org, recorded in a Merredin Roadhouse..

AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948

AL NAKBA: The Palestinian Catastrophe 1948 from Benny Brunner on Vimeo.

The film was made in 1997...