[null and void]

No infrastructure, no natural resources, no manufacturing capabilities, no building materials, neighbors that wanted to steal all your stuff and kill you, no water, no leadership, no schools, very hard just to stay alive in such a crappy environment...just to name a few.

Funny how the Joooooooooos turned the exact same area into a technology leading, food exporting, orderly and wealthy country...

[svcw]

Yep

[stuartcr]

Israel is not the same place, way smaller, and their people are not the same as arabs. Jews spread out, travelled and were exposed to a lot more of the world.