Ottoman modernization & 1858 law to transform state and communal lands into private property across the sultanate constituted opening scene of the loss of the Palestinians’ land and their expulsion from it by force of law.
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#Nakba began in early 1880s: Israeli leaders continue to regale their own people and the world with assurances that the Nakba is not just a past and present process of dispossessing the Palestinian people of their lands and expelling them, but rather one that must continuehttps://twitter.com/les_politiques/status/996591773605548032 …
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When Palestinian peasants, following land privatization, were unable to register their own village lands in their own names for fear of imperial taxation, their lands were auctioned off within the decade to urban merchants from Beirut, Jerusalem and other cities.
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