Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Institute for Palestine Studies Series) PDF
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RECORDS OF DISPOSSESSION The Institute for Palestine Studies Series Muhammad Y. Muslih. The Origins of Palestinian Nationalism. 1988 Justin McCarthy. The Population of Palestine. 1990 Camille Mansour. Beyond Alliance: Israel in U.S. Foreign Policy 1994 Michael Dumper. The Politics of Jerusalem since 1967 1997 THE INSTITUTE FOR PALESTINE STUDIES SERIES RECORDS OF DISPOSSESSION Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict michael r. fischbach COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS NEW YORK Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex Copyright © 2003 The Institute for Palestine Studies All rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Fischbach, Michael R. Records of dispossession : Palestinian refugee property and the Arab-Israeli conflict / Michael R. Fischbach. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–231–12978–5 (cl.) 1. Arab-Israeli conflict––Claims. 2. Refugee property––Israel. 3. Palestinian Arabs––Claims. 4. United Nations. Conciliation Commission for Palestine. 5. Diplomatic negotiations in international disputes. I. Title DS119.7.F565 2003 956.04––dc21 2003051514 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper A Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Lisa, Tara, Grace, and Sophia CONTENTS List of Tables xi Abbreviations xv Acknowledgments xvii Note on Transliteration xix Introduction xxi 1. Refugee Flight and Israeli Policies Toward Abandoned Property 1 Flight of the Refugees 1 Initial Israeli Attitudes Toward Refugee Property 7 The Legal Basis for Expropriation: the Custodian of Absentee Property 14 Policies of the Custodian of Absentee Property, 1948–1953 27 Early Israeli Estimates of the Scope and Value of Refugee Property: the Weitz-Danin-Lifshits Committee 40 The Custodian Sells Refugee Land to the Development Authority 53 The Jewish National Fund Acquires Refugee Land 58 Settling the Refugees’ Land with Jewish Immigrants 68 Disposal of the Balance of Refugee Land 76 2. UNCCP’s Early Activity on the Refugee Property Question 81 Establishment of the UNCCP 83 Early American Approaches to the Question 88 Lausanne Conference 91 Clapp Mission 102 New Directions for the UNCCP 108 UNCCP’s Global Estimate 114 Paris Conference 130 UNCCP’s Compensation Efforts 134 VIII CONTENTS 3. Early Israeli Policies Affecting the Property Question 144 Secret Israeli-Jordanian Talks 144 Lif Committee 147 Counter Claims for Prewar Jewish Property Abandoned in 1948 156 Counter Claims for Property Abandoned by Jews in Arab Countries After 1948 164 Linking German Reparations with Palestinian Compensation 187 Horowitz Committee 192 Release of Blocked Refugee Bank Accounts 195 Reorganization of Israeli Land Agencies 209 Secret Israeli Moves to Compensate Individual Refugees in the 1960s 210 4. Early Arab and International Policies Toward the Property Question 213 Early Arab Estimates of Refugee Property 215 UNRWA Estimates of Refugee Property 217 Arab and International Efforts on Behalf of Refugee Property 220 Britain Disposes of Filmed Copies of Mandatory Land Records 232 The Property Question After the 1956 Suez War 237 5. UNCCP Technical Program 246 Origins of the Technical Program 246 Identification of Arab Property 248 Work Issues 252 Valuation of Property 261 Final Statistics on Scope and Value of Arab Property 272 6. Follow Up to the Technical Program 281 Johnson Mission 281 UNCCP’s New Plan for Compensation Fails 288 UNCCP Solicits Refugee Inquiries 290 Response to the Technical Program 295 Demise of the UNCCP 302 The Arabs Obtain Copies of UNCCP Documents 307 CONTENTS IX 7. Refugee Property Question After 1967 313 1967 War 314 Declining Interest in the Property Question 319 New Estimates of Refugee Property 320 Refugee Property and Diplomatic Sites in Jerusalem 326 Peace Process: Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Syria, andLebanon 328 Refugee Property and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process 336 Conclusion 359 Appendix One: Comparison of Studies on the Scope and Value of Refugee Property 369 Appendix Two: Chronology of Events Relating to Refugee Property 385 Notes 393 Bibliography 435 Index 447
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