23 results for “Absentee Property”
Archival history puts the 1948 exodus near 700,000, with expulsions in some sectors; a 1949 UN count and a 1950 Israeli law recorded no cause.
Israel voted against resolution 3236 in 1974, 89 to 8. Its entry statutes, the 1950 absentee laws and the land record show what followed.
Ahad Ha’am set out the problem in 1891; the 1931 census counted Jews at 16.9%. The dated texts from Basel to Peel, quoted in their own words.
Morris’s roughly 700,000, the UN’s 711,000 and Israel’s 1950s land statutes: how the record divides the argument over the 1948 refugees.
Oslo II lists refugees as one of seven permanent-status items. The 1974 vote, Israel’s entry laws and two polls show where return sits among them.
Israel’s 2026 count, the gap any return would have to close, the one computed scenario, and what the official record contains on return.
Under the 1858 Ottoman Code, three fallow years created a tapu right, not a seizure. The court record, statutes and counts on how land changed hands.
A 1937 British inquiry, the 1917 and 1948 instruments and a 1989 study each date the conflict differently. What the dated record shows.
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled 5 to 0 for Palestinian landowners in 1979 on title. What land codes, statutes and resolutions rest claims on.
The 1931 census counted 759,712 Moslems among 1,035,821 residents; two founding texts claim the same land as a people’s birthplace.
From six Judean colonies in 1882 to 1903 to a 2018 Basic Law clause on settlement: what Zionism’s ‘colony’ named, and where scholars split over it.
The colonial argument about Zionism, traced to dated records: the 1922 Mandate, the 1950 land statutes, two court rulings and official counts.
Resolution 3236 of 1974 calls return an inalienable right. It passed 89 to 8 with 37 abstentions and restates a 1948 paragraph without its compensation clause.
The instruments governing forced displacement carry no term of years. Where duration is legally operative, it is in property law.
The transfer statements are letters and remarks; the 225,000 figure is British. What the pre-state record holds, document by document.
What the registers, censuses, audits and court files record about the machinery a Palestinian state would run on, and where the record holds nothing.
Israel’s Law of Return, its 1952 Citizenship Law, the court record on family reunification, and why four published refugee counts differ by millions.
An 1886 clash, a labor ratio, boundary and grazing disputes in the colony archives: what the dated record holds on early Zionist and Palestinian contact.
The 1950 absentee statute, the property claims the Conciliation Commission sampled in 1951, and the valuations on record, each named and dated.
Roughly 700,000 Palestinians were displaced in 1947 to 1949, per Morris’s archival history. What the archives, statutes and recorded votes hold.
Published shares of Jewish landholding at the end of the Mandate run from 2.1% to 7.6%. Reading the registers, the purchases and the 1948 instruments.
Published totals run from about 1 million to more than 17 million dunams. What each figure counts, and which body measured it.
Seven Israeli laws carry the label. One is a Basic Law, passed 62 to 55 in July 2018 and upheld 10 to 1 by the Supreme Court in July 2021.