What Happened to the Peasants in the Middle East?

Urban speculators would spread rumors of looming mass conscriptions and war s that would frighten the peasants into selling their land cheaply just to get off the books. This process led to an accumulation of huge tracts of land by urban, wealthy notables who had never and would never set foot on it. In beyrout, the sorsuk family, for example, 70 square miles of land in the jezreel valley,. And they were living in lebanon's capital. Their land was in palestine, and it was nothing to them other than a profit venture. All they cared about was the income being provided by the peasants living there. If it turned out that they could