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I can see the palestinians right there, hiding behind the dunes.
Aaaah, what they could have made of the place. Instead, the world is stuck with this place. Wonder why gramps wants it back.
Jaffa was a port town controlled by Arabs when Jews returning to Israel started settling in the area around the turn of the 20th century.
The Arabs made it known that while they would do business with the Jews through the port they controlled, Jews were not welcome to live in Jaffa in any serious numbers.
So the Jews built their own homesteads in the sandy hills above Jaffa.
After about twenty years these homes were numerous enough to become a full-fledged town in its own right: Tel Aviv, established in 1909, was that town.
Having been to both Jaffa and “Tel Al-Rabi” many times, this is laughable on the face of it.