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20261105 150100 UTC
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[00:00:04] In the last years of the 19th century,
[00:00:08] the Zionist movement promoted the idea of a Jewish
[00:00:11] national home and was determined
[00:00:14] to establish it, and it became necessary to take
[00:00:17] the first step in that project, which is
[00:00:21] to raise the money needed for the next
[00:00:25] stage.
[00:00:33] The World Zionist Organization, after taking the decision at the First
[00:00:37] Zionist Congress in 1897, known
[00:00:39] as the Basel Congress, to establish a Jewish
[00:00:43] state
[00:00:45] somewhere, but there was a strong desire for
[00:00:48] Palestine, which was considered the land of fathers and grandfathers. There was
[00:00:52] a need to raise money to achieve this project,
[00:00:56] and therefore the Jewish National Fund was established in
[00:01:01] with the aim of collecting funds from wealthy
[00:01:05] Jews and from Jews in general to buy
[00:01:08] plots of land in Palestine. The goal
[00:01:11] behind buying land in Palestine is to establish colonies
[00:01:15] that will form the nucleus of the future
[00:01:18] state.
[00:01:23] In 1903 and during the Sixth Zionist
[00:01:26] Congress, which was held in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
[00:01:30] The establishment of the Jewish National Fund was reiterated with the aim of collecting money from Jews
[00:01:33] to buy land in Palestine. The idea
[00:01:37] of its establishment had come up at the First Zionist Congress in
[00:01:40] 1897.
[00:01:42] And the one who presented this proposal was the Zionist
[00:01:46] scholar who was residing
[00:01:50] in Europe. Firman was the one
[00:01:53] who proposed the establishment of such a fund, and the fund was registered in
[00:01:56] Britain as a British company in 19
[00:02:01] and its headquarters were moved from Vienna to Poland at the beginning of the First World
[00:02:04] War, and in 1922 its headquarters were moved
[00:02:08] to the city of Jerusalem, and it established many
[00:02:11] branches all over the world.
[00:02:13] It is clear
[00:02:19] that the main role of this fund is
[00:02:22] land. A state that does not own land
[00:02:25] is not a state, it is a hypothetical state. Therefore, this fund sought
[00:02:29] to acquire the largest area of land in Palestine,
[00:02:33] especially in very important locations. Therefore, we can
[00:02:37] say that this project of buying land had the goal
[00:02:40] of establishing
[00:02:43] the first foundations of the Jewish state in
[00:02:46] Palestine.
[00:02:51] The Jewish National Fund succeeded by adopting
[00:02:54] two strategies: an internal strategy and an external
[00:02:57] strategy. The internal strategy was to try to convince Jews
[00:03:01] to immigrate to Palestine, and this was
[00:03:04] a big challenge because the first waves of immigration to Palestine believed
[00:03:08] that Palestine would be the first destination for immigration,
[00:03:11] but after that they discovered that most Jewish
[00:03:15] immigrants did not go to Palestine, but went to the United States of America,
[00:03:18] and therefore Palestine ranked fifth on the list of Jewish
[00:03:22] immigration. The strategy adopted
[00:03:26] by the National Fund was to convince Jews, especially artisans and farmers,
[00:03:29] to immigrate to Palestine,
[00:03:31] create mechanisms for travel and financial means,
[00:03:35] and convince businessmen to adopt
[00:03:38] and bear the costs of immigrants,
[00:03:41] and thus also establish companies, companies that
[00:03:44] contribute to paying the costs of immigrants to
[00:03:48] Palestine.
[00:03:50] But it seems that the idea of buying land in
[00:03:54] Palestine for the benefit of Jews predates
[00:03:57] the establishment of the Jewish National Fund.
[00:04:01] And the Zionists at that time,
[00:04:05] who perhaps were not called Zionists at that time because
[00:04:08] the name began after the first conference in 1896,
[00:04:12] began buying land, including the Montefiore neighborhood, for example.
[00:04:15] They began buying land in
[00:04:19] the coastal village of
[00:04:22] Mulabbis. They bought it and built a settlement
[00:04:25] in it called Petah Tikva, the Gate of Hope, and they began
[00:04:29] from that time to try
[00:04:32] to swallow up the land around the settlement, and there was
[00:04:36] Palestinian resistance, for example, in
[00:04:39] 1886, when they tried to swallow up the land
[00:04:42] surrounding the Petah Tikva settlement. Eh,
[00:04:46] 11 Palestinians were injured by stones.
[00:04:50] And from that time until this day, settlement
[00:04:53] has not stopped advancing, and the
[00:04:56] resistance of the Palestinian people
[00:05:00] to this settlement has not stopped. We were dealing with agricultural
[00:05:04] and primitive societies that were not very interested
[00:05:07] in issues of titling or land registration.
[00:05:11] When a new direction is imposed on a new pattern of Palestinian
[00:05:14] land management towards registering it
[00:05:18] legally without there being awareness among the Palestinian public
[00:05:22] of the importance of this issue, then you serve one party, which is the party
[00:05:25] that can benefit from the titling process,
[00:05:28] and therefore many land registration processes
[00:05:32] here appear to be an investment
[00:05:35] of, let's say, the simplicity of Palestinian
[00:05:38] society at that time towards its exploitation by
[00:05:43] the precise directions of the Zionist entity,
[00:05:46] because it knows and they are proceeding according to a studied plan, and Palestinian
[00:05:50] society deals simply with these issues. Therefore, the titling
[00:05:54] process, of course, served in the direction that there are official documents
[00:05:57] to the extent that the courts.