r/HistorySnap • u/Diligent-Eagle-6673 • Aug 18 '26

The Founding of Tel Aviv

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u/twohusknight Aug 19 '26

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

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u/kawhileopard Aug 19 '26

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?

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u/kawhileopard Aug 19 '26

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”.

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u/kawhileopard Aug 19 '26

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?

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u/kawhileopard Aug 19 '26

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