Avneri's book documents in exquisite detail how absentee Arab effendi landlords worked as fraudulent fellaheen land claim generators as part of a real estate lawfare pogrom against Jewish land purchases, with British mandatory government encouragement. The decades long Wadi Hawarith land dispute exemplifies this sell it, get indemnity for fellaheen, landlords pocket the indemnity, defrauded fellaheen claim again and squat to enforce the fraudulent claim. Then in 1947-49, go to war to take back the newly valuable land Jews had swamp drained and improved from the malarial swamp state the Arabs and Ottomans had left it in for centuries.