SteveR wrote: When I first read about the Christian genocide in the last days of the Ottomon Empire, it was heartwrenching. Kurds, Turks and Syrian Muslims systematically eradicating Armenian, Assyrian and Orthodox Christians was a tragic thought. Some Missionaries think the Great Powers didnt do enough to help, others said the Great Powers were culpable. The idea of the later was to painful to accept. But here we are again, what do we have? The cradle of Christianity once again ravaged and the blame clings to self styled Christians like a heavy odor
In the 1930s most land was bought from small landowners. Of the land that the Jews bought, "52.6% of the lands were bought from big non-Palestinian landowners, 24.6% from Palestinian-Arab landowners and only 9.4% from the Fellahin".[10]