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During the time of the British
1. Henry Laurens, La Question de la Pales-
tine, vol. III, 1947–1967. L’accomplissement des
prophéties, Paris, Fayard, 2007, p.30.
2. A dunum is a unit of measurement dating
from Ottoman times, equal to 919.3 m 2 , but
during the British Mandate in Palestine (1917–
1948), the metric dunum, measuring 1000 m 2 ,
was adopted.
3. While the director of the Education De-
partment for the Arab state schools was British,
assisted by some Palestinians, the Jewish state
schools were managed by Jews. The two Ka-
doorie schools were very different: the Tulkarm
school had a British curriculum, and was run
mainly by the British; the Mount Tabor school
had its own curriculum, without reference to
the British.
4. Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Pales-
tine, Oxford, Oneworld Publications, 2006.
Most of the activities of the FNJ during the
period of the Mandate and around the Nakba
were closely linked to the name of Yossef Weitz,
the head of its settlements’ division. By the end
the 1930s archives were almost complete. 
5.  The FNJ was founded in 1901 during the
5th Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland.
6.  From 1950 until 1967, the West Bank was
part of Jordan. There was thus no border to be
crossed.
7.  Moshe Dayan started the reconstruction of
the Allenby Bridge, to allow free and regular cir-
culation in both directions. Jordanian civil ad-
ministration was maintained in the West Bank.
At the same time, Dayan encouraged residents
of the West Bank to leave for Jordan. He con-
centrated his efforts on transforming the West
Bank into an Israeli appendix, what the critics
called “creeping annexation”, which took place,
especially after the right-wing Israeli party, the
Likud, came to power with Begin in 1977 (Ben-
ny Morris, Righteous Victims: A History of the
Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881–2001, New York,
Vintage Books, 2001). Jordan only cut ad-
ministrative links with the West Bank in 1988
(King Hussein’s speech, July 31, 1988). The
exodus to Jordan involved 200,000 to 300,000
inhabitants of the West Bank. 803,600 Pales-
tinians stayed in the West Bank, and 434,100
in Gaza, according to Georges Kossaifi, “L’en-
jeu démographique en Palestine” (table 2: Arab
and Jewish populations living in Palestine based
on the region and date, between 1922–1967),
in Camille Mansour (ed.), Les Palestiniens de
l’ intérieur, Washington, Les Livres de la Revue
d’études palestiniennes, 1989.
8.  The Mossad is one of the three intelligence
agencies in Israel.
9.  Felicia Langer was born in Poland to a Jew-
ish family and married to a survivor of the Sho-
ah. She emigrated to Israel in 1950. Since 1967,
shocked by the violence of the Israeli army,
she defended the Palestinians in Israeli mili-
tary courts. She is vice-president of the Israeli
League of Human Rights. In 2009 she became
a committee member of the Russell Tribunal on
Palestine.
10. Habib Ishow, “The State and the farming
community in Iraq”, Revue de l’Occident musul-
man et de la Méditerrannée, vol. 45, n°1, 1987,
p. 116.
11.  This Ottoman law is also applied in Jordan
and in Syria on so-called dead lands, al ard al
mawât. See Muhammad Faruq ‘Akkâm, “Des
fondements de la propriété dans la jurisprudence
musulmane – La mainmise sur les biens vacants”,
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditer-
ranée, n°79–80, 1996, pp. 25–41.
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