Summary
The association which, in Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, acquired in 1901 a very large tract of land in Tiberias from the Sursuq family, forming a territorial core around which further purchasing established a contiguous block of Jewish-owned land (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.10 / printed p.142).
Details
- The 1901 acquisition took advantage of a concession granted under an Ottoman land code dating from 1867 (PDF p.10 / printed p.142, note 27, citing Polk, “The Arabs and Palestine”, in Backdrop to Tragedy (1957), pp.236-238).
- Wolfe presents the purchase as an early instance of the pattern his article traces: acquisition in conformity with the existing legal system, followed by friction once settlers moved onto the purchased land, arising mainly from the settlers’ disregard for local protocols concerning access to and use of land (PDF p.10-11 / printed p.142-143).
Related pages
Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, Tiberias, Sursuq family, Jewish National Fund