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00:00:04In the last years of the 19th century,
00:00:08the Zionist movement promoted the idea of a Jewish
00:00:11national home and was determined
00:00:14to establish it, and it became necessary to take
00:00:17the first step in that project, which is
00:00:21to raise the money needed for the next
00:00:25stage.
00:00:33The World Zionist Organization, after taking the decision at the First
00:00:37Zionist Congress in 1897, known
00:00:39as the Basel Congress, to establish a Jewish
00:00:43state
00:00:45somewhere, but there was a strong desire for
00:00:48Palestine, which was considered the land of fathers and grandfathers. There was
00:00:52a need to raise money to achieve this project,
00:00:56and therefore the Jewish National Fund was established in
00:01:01with the aim of collecting funds from wealthy
00:01:05Jews and from Jews in general to buy
00:01:08plots of land in Palestine. The goal
00:01:11behind buying land in Palestine is to establish colonies
00:01:15that will form the nucleus of the future
00:01:18state.
00:01:23In 1903 and during the Sixth Zionist
00:01:26Congress, which was held in the city of Basel, Switzerland.
00:01:30The establishment of the Jewish National Fund was reiterated with the aim of collecting money from Jews
00:01:33to buy land in Palestine. The idea
00:01:37of its establishment had come up at the First Zionist Congress in
00:01:401897.
00:01:42And the one who presented this proposal was the Zionist
00:01:46scholar who was residing
00:01:50in Europe. Firman was the one
00:01:53who proposed the establishment of such a fund, and the fund was registered in
00:01:56Britain as a British company in 19
00:02:01and its headquarters were moved from Vienna to Poland at the beginning of the First World
00:02:04War, and in 1922 its headquarters were moved
00:02:08to the city of Jerusalem, and it established many
00:02:11branches all over the world.
00:02:13It is clear
00:02:19that the main role of this fund is
00:02:22land. A state that does not own land
00:02:25is not a state, it is a hypothetical state. Therefore, this fund sought
00:02:29to acquire the largest area of land in Palestine,
00:02:33especially in very important locations. Therefore, we can
00:02:37say that this project of buying land had the goal
00:02:40of establishing
00:02:43the first foundations of the Jewish state in
00:02:46Palestine.
00:02:51The Jewish National Fund succeeded by adopting
00:02:54two strategies: an internal strategy and an external
00:02:57strategy. The internal strategy was to try to convince Jews
00:03:01to immigrate to Palestine, and this was
00:03:04a big challenge because the first waves of immigration to Palestine believed
00:03:08that Palestine would be the first destination for immigration,
00:03:11but after that they discovered that most Jewish
00:03:15immigrants did not go to Palestine, but went to the United States of America,
00:03:18and therefore Palestine ranked fifth on the list of Jewish
00:03:22immigration. The strategy adopted
00:03:26by the National Fund was to convince Jews, especially artisans and farmers,
00:03:29to immigrate to Palestine,
00:03:31create mechanisms for travel and financial means,
00:03:35and convince businessmen to adopt
00:03:38and bear the costs of immigrants,
00:03:41and thus also establish companies, companies that
00:03:44contribute to paying the costs of immigrants to
00:03:48Palestine.
00:03:50But it seems that the idea of buying land in
00:03:54Palestine for the benefit of Jews predates
00:03:57the establishment of the Jewish National Fund.
00:04:01And the Zionists at that time,
00:04:05who perhaps were not called Zionists at that time because
00:04:08the name began after the first conference in 1896,
00:04:12began buying land, including the Montefiore neighborhood, for example.
00:04:15They began buying land in
00:04:19the coastal village of
00:04:22Mulabbis. They bought it and built a settlement
00:04:25in it called Petah Tikva, the Gate of Hope, and they began
00:04:29from that time to try
00:04:32to swallow up the land around the settlement, and there was
00:04:36Palestinian resistance, for example, in
00:04:391886, when they tried to swallow up the land
00:04:42surrounding the Petah Tikva settlement. Eh,
00:04:4611 Palestinians were injured by stones.
00:04:50And from that time until this day, settlement
00:04:53has not stopped advancing, and the
00:04:56resistance of the Palestinian people
00:05:00to this settlement has not stopped. We were dealing with agricultural
00:05:04and primitive societies that were not very interested
00:05:07in issues of titling or land registration.
00:05:11When a new direction is imposed on a new pattern of Palestinian
00:05:14land management towards registering it
00:05:18legally without there being awareness among the Palestinian public
00:05:22of the importance of this issue, then you serve one party, which is the party
00:05:25that can benefit from the titling process,
00:05:28and therefore many land registration processes
00:05:32here appear to be an investment
00:05:35of, let's say, the simplicity of Palestinian
00:05:38society at that time towards its exploitation by
00:05:43the precise directions of the Zionist entity,
00:05:46because it knows and they are proceeding according to a studied plan, and Palestinian
00:05:50society deals simply with these issues. Therefore, the titling
00:05:54process, of course, served in the direction that there are official documents
00:05:57to the extent that the courts.