Who's Land is It Anyways?

Let Bibi Netanyahu Make His Best Case

Do you Really want to understand the Middle East conflict?

Get a cup of tea, and at least let him make his case.

You’d be surprised what you don’t know.

Either way, there is zero chance for a lasting peace someday future without a full appreciation of the perspectives of others. This was only 10 months back.

Just listen:

Bonus:

Perspective: Throughout his popular 1869 travel book Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain explicitly states that the area was desolate and devoid of inhabitants. His group entered Palestine from the north, passing through such sites as the Sea of Galilee, the Banias, Nazareth, Jenin and Nablus.Riding on horseback through the Jezreel Valley, Twain observed,

“There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for 30 miles in either direction. There are two or three small clusters of Bedouin tents, but not a single permanent habitation. One may ride 10 miles, hereabouts, and not see 10 human beings.”He continues, “Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery, I think Palestine must be the prince... Can the curse of the Deity beautify a land? “Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies.”

Illustration (1855): "We reached Mount Tabor safely ... we never saw a human being on the whole route ... We climbed the steep path to its summit, through breezy glades of thorn and oak. The view presented from its highest peak was almost beautiful. Below, was the broad, level plain of Esdraelon, checkered with fields like a chess-board, and full as smooth and level, seemingly; dotted about its borders with white, compact villages, and faintly penciled, far and near, with the curving lines of roads and trails." Mark Twain, 1867^[4]