. . . The Zionists have as much right to this no-man’s land as the Arabs, or more. —ARNOLD TOYNBEE215 “If we must have preferences, let me murmur in your ear that I prefer Arabs to Jews.” —ANTHONY EDEN, British secretary of foreign affairs216 ELEMENTS OF BETRAYAL Of all the injustices perpetrated against the Jewish people in the Holy Land, the worst is the way their land has been continually reduced from its original mandated seize. As we have seen, historical evidence shows that during the four centuries under Ottoman control, the Holy Land reached its ultimate state of desolation. During that period, the absentee landlord effendis practiced such calloused usury and taxation on the poor Arab’s who attempted to farm the land that they all were eventually overwhelmed with debt and fled the land. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, every report from officials and visitors described a land virtually absent of any settled people. Remarks such as these call attention to the terrible condition of the land, and speak of hardly any living souls inhabiting the vast desolation that lay between the few villages and towns.
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