>>64243821
>proofs?
Look up "fellaheen" in the context of Palestine. The short version is that outside of the handful of cities in Ottoman/Mandatory Palestine, the vast majority of the local Arab population were poor migrant workers and peasants. There was little private land ownership by locals. Most land was owned by rich absentee landlords in Turkey and Syria. As with most agrarian societies with oppressive caste structures, the land was largely unproductive as the working class had no incentive to improve it and the landowning class had no incentive to invest in it. That's how it was relatively easy for zionist organizations to purchase and settle land, especially shitty land like desert and malarial swamps.