[MuttTheHoople]

Read Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad. He went there in the late 1870's, and Palestine was a wasteland, a backwater of the Ottoman Empire.

It was when Zionists began populating the land, creating farms, building buildings (all with the blessings of the Ottoman Empire), was when that part of the world became important.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

It was when Zionists began populating the land,

You may be more productive than your neighbor, but you won't be using that as a pretext to claim that his property to your relatives in Russia, would you?