Ninety percent of the lands acquired by the Jews in Palestine between 1920 and 1927 were bought from the effendis and ten percent from the fellaheen, says a statement from the Jewish National Fund, reproduced in the Arab newspaper “Felestin” without comment.
The unchallenged statement adds that most of the stretches bought were in the plantation belt and their sale enabled the fellaheen to develop their own farms while ninety percent of the former squatters have settled in neighboring villages with the assistance of the compensation paid them by the Jews.
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