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We also know that Zionist settlers and organizations deviously purchased small pieces of land and, then used the smaller parcels as an excuse to illegally and unlawfully occupied additional land that they had not purchased or legally owned.

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Ilan Pappé

Pappé argues that Zionist institutions deliberately used early, small-scale land purchases as tactical beachheads to establish a physical presence on the ground. Once these initial parcels were secured, settlers and organizations incrementally expanded their perimeters, using mapping, security outposts, and boundary creeping to illegally claim surrounding Palestinian territories well beyond their original, purchased deeds.

Pappé, Ilan. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. Oneworld Publications, 2006.

Rashid Khalidi

Khalidi asserts that pre-1948 Zionist land acquisition was a strategic settler-colonial operation where small, targeted property purchases were intentionally leveraged as stepping stones. These initial holdings allowed settlements to encroach upon and usurp adjacent, unpurchased Palestinian lands, transforming isolated legal purchases into broader, continuous territorial control that dispossessed local communities.

Khalidi, Rashid. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017. Metropolitan Books, 2020.

Nur Masalha

Masalha demonstrates that organizations like the Jewish National Fund bought small plots of land not as isolated real estate deals, but to create permanent enclaves that served as pretexts for territorial expansion. Once established, these initial holdings were used to systematically encroach upon surrounding Arab-cultivated lands and customary territories, unlawfully expanding Jewish control over the region.

Masalha, Nur. The Zionist Bible: Biblical Authority and the Settler Colonial Project. Acumen Publishing, 2013.

Patrick Wolfe

Wolfe frames early Zionist land purchases as a deliberate phase of “preaccumulation” within a settler-colonial framework. Small, legally acquired parcels served as operational bases designed to gradually creep outward, assert unauthorized physical dominance over surrounding spaces, and ultimately transition from localized land buys to total territorial expropriation.

Wolfe, Patrick. “Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Space.” Settler Colonial Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2012, pp. 133–171.

Walid Khalidi

Khalidi demonstrates that Zionist land purchasing strategies were designed to secure small, strategic footholds that could be incrementally expanded. These initial parcels were used as bases to assert control over surrounding Palestinian lands, encroaching beyond the original purchased boundaries and establishing permanent territorial dominance at the expense of native inhabitants.

Khalidi, Walid. Before Their Diaspora: A Photographic History of the Palestinians, 1876–1948. Institute for Palestine Studies, 1984.

Shira Robinson

Robinson details how early Zionist settlement planning utilized small land purchases as stepping stones for wider territorial capture. Once small plots were legally registered, settlers and institutions used them to gradually encroach upon, claim, and dispossess adjacent Arab lands and common areas, laying the structural foundation for illegal expansion.

Robinson, Shira. Citizen Strangers: Palestinians and the Birth of Israel’s Liberal Settler State. Stanford University Press, 2013.

Baruch Kimmerling

Kimmerling analyzes the spatial mechanisms of early Jewish colonization, arguing that purchasing small, isolated land parcels was a deliberate tactic to create contiguous territorial blocks. These initial holdings were leveraged to creep outward, usurp surrounding unpurchased lands, and disrupt Palestinian geographical continuity.

Kimmerling, Baruch. Zionism and Territory: The Socio-Territorial Dimensions of the Zionist-Israeli Struggle for Palestine. University of California Press, 1983.

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