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Thread #140399   Message #3231783
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Sep-11 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Palestine
Subject: RE: BS: Palestine
That was an example of how "a legitimate purchase" can mean people being dispossessed, in response to suggestion that this could never happen.

This is something that has happened, and continues to happen in many places at many times, when landlords, especially absentee landlords, sell property, and the purchasers have plans that don't include the residents staying on.

There is no doubt that friction between evicted peasants and immigrants taking over purchased land was a major factor in civil unrest between the wars in Palestine.

But in any case all this is totally irrelevant to the issue of Palestinian membership of the UN.