Olives

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Excerpt from the book "Before their Diaspora" by Walid Khalidi:"Palestinian Agricultural Production: Contrary to prevailing opinion in the Western world, the Palestinians were responsible for the bulk of agricultural production in the country during the British Mandate ... Olives: of 600.133 dunams, 99 percent was Palestinian-owned and cultivated." (one dunam = one thousand square meters)