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Originally Posted by Beninho
Most of the land the Jews got was a wasteland with much of it legally purchased from the Ottomans. Jerusalem is the holiest city in Judaism and is integral to Jewish culture and religion. Unlike Islam in Judaism we pray towards Jerusalem and not to Mecca. It’s only a holy site because us, the Jews, made it a holy site.
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Haifa, Acre, Jaffa, Nazareth, etc. all existed well before the establishment of israel. They were populated mostly by palestinians Muslims and Christians with small Jewish minorities. There were farming communities throughout the entire country well before Israel existed. A total of 400 arab towns and villages were ethnically cleansed to create israel.
That is most definitely not a "wasteland" as you state.