Palestinian Rights And Losses In 1948 Book

Acknowledgements
Palestine Land Measurements and Currency
Preface

PART ONE: THE SEEDS OF CONFLICT
Chapter 1 Palestine under the Ottoman Turks
Chapter 2 British Pledges of Arab Independence (1915)
Chapter 3 British Commitment to a Jewish National Home in Palestine (1917)
Chapter 4 British Military Administration (1918 to 1920)
Chapter 5 The Palestine Mandate Period (1920 to 1948)


PART TWO: THE LAND PROBLEM
Chapter 6 The Soil of Palestine
Chapter 7 Palestine System of Land Tenure
A. The Ottoman Land Code
B. Palestine Land Legislation Chapter 8: Palestine System of Land Taxation

A. The Ottoman System
B. The British Administration

Chapter 9 Government Laws Regulating the Acquisition of Arab Land by Jews
A. The Land Transfer Ordinance (1920)
B. The Transfer of Land Ordinance (1920-21)
C. Protection of Cultivators Ordinance (1929)
D. The Cultivators (Protection) Ordinance (1933)
E. The Land Transfer Regulations (1940)
Chapter 10 Jewish Acquisition of Arab Land Chapter 11 Palestinian Opposition to Jewish Land Purchase

PART THREE: PALESTINE AFTER THE MANDATE
Chapter 12 Palestine and the United Nations
A. The Plan of Partition (I947)
B. The Armistice (1949)
C. UN Resolutions on Palestine Chapter 14 Israeli Seizure of Arab Property

A. Immovable Property
B. Looting of Arab Movable Property Chapter 15 The Palestine Conciliation Commission

A. Appointment, Tasks, and Responsibilities
B. The 'Global' Assessment of Palestinian Losses (1951)
C. Identification and Valuation of Individual Immovable Property (1964) D. Commentary on Assessment and Identification of Ownership E. BlockedBank Accounts

PART FOUR: EXAMINATION AND REVISION OF UNITED NATIONS DOCUMENTS
Chapter 15 Identification of Arab Land Ownership
A. General Remarks
B. Examination of the Work of the Land Expert
C. Revised Identification of Ownership Basis of Immovable Property
D. Conclusion

PART FIVE: AN ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF TOTAL PALESTINIAN LOSSES IN 1948
Chapter 16 Palestine Losses: an Overview A. Introduction
B. The Theoretical Basis for Compensation
C. Previous Valuations of Palestinian Losses and their Deficiencies
D. Plan of Part Five
F. A Synopsis of the Results
Chapter 17 Alternative Assessments of Palestinian Losses: an Analytical Review A. Introduction B. The UN Palestine Conciliation Commission Estimates of the Value of 'Abandoned' Property
C. The League of Arab States Estimates
D. Professor Yusif Sayigh's Estimates
E. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 18 German Reparation Payments and Restitution of Property to Jews
A. Introduction
B. The Luxembourg Agreement and the Israeli-German Treaty
C. Restitution for Lost Property
D. Indemnification for Persecution of Persons
E. Jewish Classification of Damage
F. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 19 The Typology of Palestinian Losses: a Re-evaluation
A. Introduction
B. Ownership of Capital
C. Concluding Remarks
Chapter 20 Valuation of Palestinian Urban and Rural Real Estate Losses
A. Introduction
B. A Methodological Note
C. A Note on the Data
D. Valuation of Rural Land
E. Valuation of Urban Property
F. Concluding Remarks Chapter 21: Palestinian Losses: a Final Balance Sheet

A. Introduction
B. Distribution of Losses by Item
C. Relationship of Our Estimates to Previous Estimates
D. The Capitalized Income Approach versus the Itemized Approach
E. Concluding Remarks

Maps

A. Ottoman Administrative Districts (1914)
B. The Eastern Arab World
C. Syria (1916)
D. Partition of Syria and Iraq under the Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
E. Zionist Proposals for a 'Zionist State' as Submitted to the Paris Peace Conference 1919
F. British and French Mandates over the Eastern Arab World (1920)
G. Mandated Palestine 1920 to 1948
H. Palestine, Classification of Soil
I. Palestine Land Sales Restricted Zones (1940)
J. Land in Jewish Possession or Occupation (1945)
K. Palestine — Map of Partition (1947)
L. Jerusalem International Zone (1947)
M. Palestine as a Result of Armistice Agreements (1949)
N. Jerusalem According to the General Armistice Agreement (1949)

Appendices

I. UN Working Paper on Principles of 'Return and Compensation of Refugees
II. UN Working Paper on Principles of 'Historical Precedents for Restitution of Property
III. Findings of Land Expert on 'Individual Arab Property in Urban Areas'
IV. Findings of Land Expert on 'Individual Arab Land in Rural Areas'
V. Territories Excluded from Revised Study The West Bank
The Gaza Strip
VI. Jewish Land Holdings in the Israeli-Occupied Territory Excluded from the Study
VII. List of Arab Towns and Villages Part of whose Inhabitants Reported to Have Remained in their Homes in 1948
VIII. Revised Survey of Land and Property Claimed by the Palestinians:
A. In Urban Areas
B. In Rural Areas
C. As Arab Land in Jewish Settlements
IX. 'Focus' by Federal Republic of Germany on 'Restitution in Germany' dated No I/May 1985
X. Valuation of Land in Rural Areas
Xl. Valuation of Property in Urban Areas

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