Let's talk about Jews and Israel!

You're missing the point.

Most of the land that these Palestinians lived on was never bought by Zionists either. This was almost never a case of "sorry, I know you live here but I bought the building from the owner". Zionist holdings accounted for around 8% of the total land, the overwhelming majority of this property was not where Palestinians were living. Palestinians were not bought out, they were driven out.

You also haven't provided a source for your claim that Jews owned twice as much private land as Arabs, so I'll provide one instead.

"In May 1948 the State of Israel was established in only part of the area allotted by the original League of Nations Mandate. 8.6 percent of the land was owned by Jews and 3.3 per cent by Israeli Arabs, while 16.9 per cent had been abandoned by Arab owners"

So there you go. Jews owned 8.6%, whilst Arabs owned 20.2%.

Not only was your claim that Jews in Palestine owned more privately held land than Arabs false, Arabs owned well over twice as much land as Jews did.

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