[News] The Palestinians made the desert bloom - Zionist Lies about 'a land without people'

[Anti-Imperialist News]

THE PALESTINIANS MADE THE DESERT BLOOM : ZIONIST 
LIES ABOUT PALESTINE BEING “A LAND WITHOUT PEOPLE
.”

http://www.intifada-palestine.com/2010/10/the-palestinians-made-the-desert-bloom-zionist-lies-about-palestine-being-a-land-without-people/
27. Oct, 2010


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/>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 
<http://www.amazon.com/Survey-Palestine-Vol-Information-Anglo-American/dp/088728213X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268959450&sr=1-1>Survey 
of Palestine, which has been scanned and made 
available online by 
<http://www.palestineremembered.com/index.html>Palestine 
Remembered; all 1300 pages can be read 
<http://www.palestineremembered.com/Acre/Books/Story831.html>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 Palestines 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.

See the precise numbers, from a scan of the 
relevant page of the Survey of Palestine , 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e201310fb901b7970c-pi>here.

Who made the melon patches of Jaffa bloom?

The British government survey found that in 
1944-45 Palestines 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.

See the precise numbers, from a scan of the 
relevant page of the Survey of Palestine , 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e201310fb8a351970c-pi>here.

Who made the tobacco fields of Safad bloom?

The British government survey found that in 
1944-45 Palestines 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.

See a scan of the relevant page of the Survey of 
Palestine 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e20120a951bffd970b-pi>here.

Who made the olive groves of Tulkarm bloom?

The British government survey found that in 
1944-45 Palestines 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.

See the precise numbers, from a scan of the 
relevant page of the Survey of Palestine, 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e201310fb8a351970c-pi>here 
and 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e20120a951cd7c970b-pi>here.

Who made the banana groves of Tiberias bloom?

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

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

See the relevant page of the Survey of Palestine, 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e201310fb8bff8970c-pi>here.

Who made the vegetable fields of the coastal plain bloom?

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.

See the precise numbers, from a scan of the 
relevant page of the Survey of Palestine , 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e201310fb8a351970c-pi>here.

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 Palestines 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. (See the exact 
numbers 
<http://lawrenceofcyberia.blogs.com/.a/6a00d834522bcd69e20120a951f6f9970b-pi>here).

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 
<http://www.amazon.com/Before-Their-Diaspora-Photographic-Palestinians/dp/0887281443/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1268959387&sr=8-1>Before 
Their Diaspora: A Photographic History Of The 
Palestinians 1876 – 1948, by Walid Khalidi.




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