Did we read different articles ? Sure did . The word fraud and it ' s synonyms haven ' t popped up yet . when eventually they discovered they needed such recognitionGo decades , or even centuries without proper paper work being filled out , and suddenly it ' s fraud when no one knows who the land belongs too ? Most of the land was miri . So it was owned by the state . Thus the state could sell it . By far the majority of land in the levant was miri . Land worked by peasants who obtained a valid right to that land by cultivating it and working it . Over time these farmers gained independent land ownership rights of their land . This statement is not supported by your citations . If the land was miri , and the farmers in fact had valid rights to it , they would have been registered to it , and been paying tithes for it . I ' m not sure what else to say . If the paper work wasn ' t filled out , and the tithes not being paid , they had no legal claim to the land . But the problems arose not just because the land was not registered they arose also because the land was often registered in the name of someone other than the rightful owner . Sorry , but legally , the person it ' s registered to is the rightful owner . The effect of these registration laws have been described as catastrophic . 28 The practice of registering land in the name of a fictitious or dead individual , and the inexact and incomplete nature of the records made the peasant ' s claim to tenure insecure . Not questioning that . But if they haven ' t filled out the paper work , and kept up on the tithes , they DON ' T OWN THE LAND . The first thing that happened was that the ottoman aristocracy , the ayn , robbed the farmers of their land . This would have only concerned the government in that it transferred power away from the farmers and to both the state and to the aristocracy , the a ' yan . So . laws that bad been in effect for 100 years , should be ignored , because the farmers never bothered to look them up . Got ya . Then the jewish agency bought the land from either the state , or the a ' yan aristocracy , land fraudulently registered , stolen from the farmers that had earned the land by cultivating and farming it . If the land wasn ' t registered to the farmers , then they didn ' t own it . Not sure why you happen to think this is otherwise . To own miri land , you must be the registered owner , and you must pay tithes for it . If someone else is registered as the owner , then you don ' t own it , no matter how long you ' ve lived there . Why should I expect any better from you ? You shouldn ' t , you see unlike you , I actually read what is written , and don ' t embellish with my own hopes and dreams .