A master thesis entitled (The Palestinian Farmer during the British Mandate 1920-1948) was discussed in the Department of History at the College of Arts at the University of Basrah.
The thesis presented by the student, Ali Dakhil Muhammad, included three chapters. The first chapter discussed the general life of the Palestinian farmer under the British Mandate 1920-1929 ,the second chapter discussed the conditions of the Palestinian farmer under the British Mandate 1930-1939 , and the third chapter dealt with the Palestinian farmer from the outbreak of World War II until the end of the era of British Mandate of Palestine 1939-1948.
The thesis aims to identify the study of the conditions of the Palestinian farmer during the British Mandate era.
The thesis concluded:
The Ottoman land laws, especially the Foreign Ownership Law of 1869, contributed to opening the door wide for foreign settlement, and later for Zionist settlement, and led to the deterioration of the conditions of the Ottoman Empire and the weakness of its governmental apparatus in Palestine,In addition to the intervention of the consuls of the colonial countries, in the failure to address the movement of immigration and Zionist settlement, which reflected negatively on the land and the Palestinian farmer.
It turned out that the Palestinian farmer segment formed the largest part of the total population of Palestine at the end of the Ottoman era and the era of the British Mandate over Palestine, until this segment began to decrease little by little during the years of the British Mandate, as a result of the poverty and deprivation that befell it.
