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To: carton253
from your last post:

No, the Ottomans did not force the Arabs to sell their land. The Arabs did that so they would not have to pay their taxes. There is a difference.

from an earlier post:

In trying to draw power back to Istanbul and away from the periphery, the Ottomans leveled taxes against the farmers in all of the empire. The system was corrupt and the taxes were far too burdensome for the local farmers to bear. To stop paying taxes, the farmers made a deal with the effendis. They would sell them their land and keep working it as if nothing happened. This very real sale had consequences. The effendis sold it to the Jews.

I have no interest in continuing this conversation.

65 posted on 08/01/2007 12:28:49 PM PDT by liberallarry
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To: liberallarry
In your post, you said that the Ottomans forced the Arabs to sell their land. That is not true.

The Ottomans imposed heavy taxes on the farmers that they could not bear. So, to get around paying the taxes, the Arabs sold the land to the effendis and kept working the land as if nothing had happened.

The Ottomans did not force the Arabs to sell the land. The Arabs sold the land quite willingly to circumvent the Ottoman tax system, which was burdensome.

I do not understand what has gotten you so upset that you have broken off all conversation.

67 posted on 08/01/2007 1:00:08 PM PDT by carton253 (And if that time does come, then draw your swords and throw away the scabbards.)
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