who was punished for leading a group of Jewish workers who ploughed the land and clashed with Arabs.
The land has been the property of Jews for more than forty years, but recently the notorious Arab agitator, Subhi Bey Khadri, appeared on the scene and claimed the land belonged to Arabs by virtue of an alleged deed signed more than 500 years ago. The tract was originally purchased by the Jewish Colonization Association.
Twice the ownership of the land was called into question, once under the old Turkish administration and again in 1925. Each time Jewish ownership was upheld.
A victory for the Arabs, it is held, would have resulted in a flood of law suits against Jewish owners of land in Palestine.
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