| | Al-Ahram Weekly | Opinion | Remembering Land Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | According to the annual report of the Israeli census bureau in 2002, the annual population growth of 1948 Palestinians is 3.4 per cent as opposed to 1.4 per cent for the Jews, while net Jewish immigration that year was down 23 per cent from the previous year. |
 | | More than a million square dunams of land was confiscated from Arab villages within the 1948 borders of Israel, in addition to the Negev, through a series of laws and military decrees, some of which prohibited Palestinians from construction to accommodate the natural expansion of their towns and villages. |
 | | These towns and villages are not on the list of beneficiaries of development projects and most of the local Arab municipalities do not have the funding to provide essential public services, as has been reflected in the declining standards of education, health and other services. |
| weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/737/op3.htm (1550 words) |