Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
1 min readJan 3, 2024

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Wow you like to make things up.

Firstly, no 75% owned by Arabs? Nope. Nada. The majority of the land was state land, owned by the British mandate and the Ottoman empire before that.

Secondly, are you crazy? The people of Hebron who faced a pogrom in the 1830a, even before Zionism want a word. My own family was driven out of Hebron long before that and Safed copped it even worse. Jews returning to the land in the 1800s , both before political Zionism and after, who bought the worst land for insane prices(about ten times what could be bought elsewhere) faced constant attacks and harassment. Jews pleaded with local Sheikhs as their crops were destroyed by Palestinian horsemen deliberately riding over them- and the Sheikhs replied that the land was Waqf- for Muslims only forever.

Eventually in 1905, 100 Jewish farmers decided to arm to defend themselves. This became Haganah, later the IDF. This was against Ottoman law which prohibited Jews from defending themselves.

During the 1920s, there was an insane level of anti-Jewish violence. I can't believe you have just whitewashed all this.

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Yaakov C Lui-Hyden
Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Written by Yaakov C Lui-Hyden

Yaakov is a world traveller and is accused of being an Australian. Published several novels. He writes about travel, writing, geopolitics and trading.

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