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Points num. 5-6: maps pre 1948; purchases since 1901 and 93% public lands in 1948
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[https://sapirjournal.org/israel-at-75/2023/israel-is-antiracist-anti-colonialist-anti-fascist-and-was-from-the-start/ Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start)]. SAPIR. Apr 25, 2023.
[https://sapirjournal.org/israel-at-75/2023/israel-is-antiracist-anti-colonialist-anti-fascist-and-was-from-the-start/ Israel Is Antiracist, Anti-Colonialist, Anti-Fascist (and Was from the Start)]. SAPIR. Apr 25, 2023.
'Jamal Husseini, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations, reject a Jewish state in Palestine, because, he said, it would undermine the “racial homogeneity” of the Arab world. '</small>[[User:Telling|Telling]] ([[User talk:Telling|talk]]) 21:28, May 20, 2026 (EDT)
'Jamal Husseini, the representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations, reject a Jewish state in Palestine, because, he said, it would undermine the “racial homogeneity” of the Arab world. '</small>
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(Points num. 5-6: maps pre 1948; purchases since 1901 and 93% public lands in 1948)
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Maps of Pre-1948 Palestine/Eretz Israel.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/maps-of-pre-1948-palestine
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Dismantling the “stole” land in Israel - narrative, which ignores decades of legal Jewish land purchases before the 1947 UN Partition Plan, drawing on a 1945 Jewish National Fund (JNF) land ownership map, Jewish institutions and individuals had already acquired significant holdings across Mandatory Palestine through purchases made under Ottoman and British law.
The 1945 JNF map was not a proposed political border map, but rather a record of Jewish-owned land concentrated in areas such as the coastal plain, Galilee, Jezreel Valley, and parts of the Negev. Much land in Mandatory Palestine at the time was either privately owned by Arabs or classified as state/public land under Ottoman and British systems.
Zionist land acquisition began in the late 19th century and intensified after the founding of the JNF in 1901. Funding came largely from Jewish communities around the world through donations and JNF “pushke” collection boxes. Highlighted is the financial support of Baron Edmond de Rothschild for early Jewish settlements.
Between 1901 and 1947, Jewish organizations and private buyers legally purchased land from absentee Arab landlords, local owners, and occasionally the state. The JNF often targeted sparsely populated areas and compensated tenants above legal requirements when displacement occurred.
By 1947, Jewish-owned land totaled approximately 2.48 million dunams (about 620,695 acres or 970 square miles). This demonstrates that Zionist settlement relied on land purchase and development rather than conquest.
Regarding the 1947 UN Partition Plan, the UN was not assigning private property ownership but attempting to create viable Jewish and Arab states based on population centers, settlement patterns, economic factors, and state land. Much of the territory allocated to the proposed Jewish state consisted of the Negev desert, described as sparsely populated and undeveloped at the time.
In comparing the UN plan to earlier British proposals such as the 1937 Peel Commission plan, which envisioned a smaller Jewish state, the partition plan largely incorporated and connected existing Jewish settlement areas.
The JNF’s vast role in projects such as draining swamps, developing agriculture in the Negev, and planting forests, presenting these efforts as part of the Zionist movement’s goal of rebuilding a Jewish homeland.
[https://unpacked.media/did-jews-steal-the-land-in-israel-what-the-1945-jnf-map-reveals-about-the-partition-plan/ Source]