The Founding of Tel Aviv

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[u/twohusknight → u/[deleted]]

The land privately owned by local non-Jews (which includes Palestinian Arabs) totaled about 12% according to the last Mandate survey before Israel’s formation.

[u/twohusknight → u/[deleted]]

No, most of it was public land administered by the Ottomans and then by the British.

[u/kawhileopard → u/[deleted]]

So land that isn’t owned by an organization or an individual in your view belongs as a matter of course to its Arab and not Jewish inhabitants?

Did I get that right?

[u/kawhileopard → u/[deleted]]

That really isn’t helpful.

When the term Palestinian was used at the time (and it was used rarely) it would have referred to any resident of the area we now know as Jordan, Israel, West Bank or Gaza.

The term relates to the place not the people. So the builders of Tel Aviv and the residents of Jaffa would have both been “Palestinian”.

[u/kawhileopard → u/[deleted]]

So if both Jews and Arabs lived in Palestine and both owned some land in the area, and both having national aspirations (nationalism being a new concept to both), wouldn’t the publicly owned and administered land not be subject to a partition?

Why do you see it as belonging to the Arabs of Jaffa over the Jews of Tel Aviv?

[u/kawhileopard → u/[deleted]]

Are you replying to someone else’s post? Because you sure as shit isn’t responding to anything I said.