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organizations. He shows that everyone understood that control of land was a necessary precondition to fulfillment of national goals, both Jewish and Arab. Cohen explains the varied motives of sellers: some wanted money, and some sold land or acted as intelligence agents for the
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and independence within a decade. According to Cohen, Husayni rejected the offer because
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