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Strange premise, at the time Palestine was a part of Turkey, it's armpit where poorly performing civil servants might be sent. Per the Twain quotes on the thread, not much there, but there were Muslims. And as evidenced by the third holiest site in Islam
Kind of a dump. There was even Tel Aviv, out there in the desert.
The meeting founding Tel-Aviv 1908" [sic] (source: Avraham Soskin, Tel Aviv, 1926). The lottery of housing plots for the Ahuzat Bayit suburb took place on April 11, 1909. Soskin’s familiar photograph of that event quickly achieved iconic status.
To paraphrase our President, Jews, you didn't build that!
