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Mark Molker
Nov 8, 2013 at 6:05 am
‘I’ll go one step further regardless of our historical right to own the land of the current Israeli borders : as you stated correctly, when early 20th century Jews re-settled in the Land of Israel, they mostly found a wasteland. They worked the Earth and struggled hard to defend what suddenly had become a ripe fruit to steal in the midst of Arab laziness and jealousy.
Some will say that prior to the establishment of the State of Israel Jews and Arabs lived together side by side without hating each other. Although this interpretation is opened to questioning, the fact remains that when there is nothing to steal everyone carries on sharing the slums and the dirt.
Historically, when a family, a tribe or a State has become successful it has suffered the envy, antagonism and ultimately a conflict from its less successful neighbours.
This is probably our main problem in life : when we go for it, in Arts, Commerce or Sciences, we end up by gathering most of the prizes.’