Oh, and look up the Ottoman Land Code and Registration Act of 1858, in which unscrupulous Ottomans registered land belonging to Palestinian peasants, and then sold that land under them to Jewish immigrants.
From '
Palestinian Private Property Rights in Israel and the Occupied Territories' on the Vanderbilt University Law School web site:
"Unfortunately, the Ottomans instituted a land registration system in the late nineteenth century that led to wealthy Turks gaining legal title to land in Palestine through questionable means. Consequently, the Arab family farmer who may have owned the land for generations retained possession, but became a tenant of the wealthy absentee owner. “The Fund” usually bought property from the wealthy absentee owners, giving the farmer no choice but dispossession. Sometimes, Palestinian Arabs refused to leave their land, so Turkish authorities would physically evict them at “The Fund’s” request."