Wednesday, December 8, 2010

1948 UN Land Management Plan for British Palestine

We've been in Wasilla for a week waiting for Nordica's baby to arrive, and I've been learning a lot from our host family. They know the Palins so I've got a different perspective on Sarah and her children, plus I've watched 2 episodes of Sarah's TV series on Alaska. Regardless of her politics, both shows seem to me to be an accurate portrayal of hunting and fishing up here. I was surprised to see her shoot and miss several times before she got her boo; it was a very different picture of her being a "Great White Hunter" the media portrayed. It's been kind of nice to see her family from a friendly view after reading so much about her being a witch and a Monarch slave. This whole Monarch butterfly programming aspect is so freaky it's easy to discount it as b.s., until you watch a Lady Gaga video or Tupac singing about Kill the Illumiatti. I'm learning a bunch of wild stuff and some of it is utterly fascinating, like Oak Island Treasure.

It's hard to find the truth about people we know personally, let alone people who play in the spotlight. I don't feel like I "know" who Sarah Palin is just because I saw her on TV or gossiped with her neighbors; it still bothers me that so many of my countrymen think that's all it takes. If she runs for president in 2012 I think I'll stick to researching her ties to Community Policing and Community Development, because her association with Rebuilding Community was the one thing nobody in the country seemed to ask or care about. Where does Sarah Palin stand on Local Agenda 21 and the Judaic Law Institute? If I run into her at the grocery store I'll ask her.

Our host dad is one of my former bosses who's shared many ideas for improving my rustic lifestyle since we all met (and he's the one who taught me to use my chainsaw!). The mom is a beautiful Christian who walks the talk. Besides being a generous and supportive hostess, she has really helped me to understand why so many Christians support Zionism and Israel. In her view she thinks Christians don't look any further than "the Jews deserve a home "and they worship the same God. Like me, she never heard of the Talmud in her entire life and she certainly never heard that our government is replacing US Constitutional Law with Talmudic Law. Our talks will help me with the new introduction to 2020, which is going to be late... just like our baby.

From Peter Myers:
(14) Survey of Palestine refutes "land without people" myth. Palestinians made the desert bloom

The Real Bloomers of Palestine

Antoine Raffoul

October 27, 2010

http://www.uruknet.de/?s1=1&p=71231&s2=28

1948 Lest We Forget has obtained a copy of the full Survey of Palestine (Including the map survey) for its records. The following outline extracts shed more light on the Zionist lies about Palestine being "a land without people…." We recommend that Survey to all our Supporters.

Antoine Raffoul
Coordinator
1948: LEST WE FORGET
http://www.1948.org.uk

In December 1945 and January 1946, the British Mandate authorities carried out an extensive survey of Palestine , in support of the work of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine. The results were published in the Survey of Palestine, which has been scanned and made available online by Palestine Remembered; all 1300 pages can be read here.

One of the subjects investigated in the Survey of Palestine is land use; specifically, which crops were Palestine's leading agricultural products at the end of the British Mandate, and whose farms were producing them.

So, according to the Survey of Palestine, who really made the barley fields of Beersheba bloom?

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 210,000 tons of grain.

About 193,400 tons of that grain were cultivated on Palestinian farms; about 16,600 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 143,000 tons of melons.

About 136,000 tons of those melons were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 7,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 1,683 tons of tobacco, on 28,169 dunams of land. Virtually all the land under tobacco cultivation was Palestinian.

Who made the vineyards of Hebron bloom?

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 40-50,000 tons of grapes, and between 3-4 million litres of wine. About 86% of the land that produced these products was owned and cultivated by Palestinians. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 79,000 tons of olives.

About 78,000 tons of those olives were cultivated on Palestinian farms; a little over 1,000 tons were cultivated on Jewish farms. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestinian farmers produced approximately 8,000 tons of bananas.

About 60% of the land that produced these bananas was owned and cultivated by Palestinians. ...

The British government survey found that in 1944-45 Palestines farmers produced approximately 245,000 tons of vegetables.

About 189,000 tons of those vegetables were cultivated by Palestinian farmers; about 56,000 tons were cultivated by Jewish farmers. ...

So, on the eve of the partition resolution, in which the United Nations proposed to allocate 55 percent of the land to Jewish Palestine (including those parts that produced most of Palestine's leading crops, with the sole exception of the olive crop), and 45% to Arab Palestine, Palestinian Arabs were producing:

92% of Palestine grain
86% of its grapes
99% of its olives
77 % of its vegetables
95% of its melons
more than 99% of its tobacco
and 60% of its bananas.

Palestine's agricultural produce at that time had an annual value of approximately 21.8 million pounds sterling; 17.1 million of which was produced by Arab cultivation, and 4.7 million by Jewish cultivation. (as seen in below table). ...

So, who made the desert bloom? The Palestinians made the desert bloom.

Photos: All the photographs of Palestinian farmers cultivating their crops in Palestine under the British Mandate are from Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The Palestinians 1876 – 1948, by Walid Khalidi.

1 comment:

Kolnidre said...

Thanks for posting this, Niki. It's a concise fact-filled rebuttal to another of the endless hasbara lies of Judaic supremacism. As both a concerned observer of the situation in Palestine and lover of old photographs I will try to acquire Khalidi's book.

Keep up your fantastic work.