JUST THE FACTS, Ma'am;
Upon arriving in Jerusalem on September 23, 1867, Mark Twain was astounded as to why that strip of Land was contested to any degree. Twain had, some rather derogatory comments where he basically said, (not verbatim) that the area was a hot "sh#thole," with a labelling of Palestine as “a blistering naked treeless land!" The point being is that in every case, even so where Mark Twain and others always commented how there was NOTHING THERE! Israel came back in to the Land in '48 and began to master Irrigation, etc. and turned a Desert Wasteland into a commission that is now a major Exporter of Flowers, Plants, Vegetables, etc., so of course the Arab League want to dig their fingers into it!
And, by the way, I skipped ahead of the Class, read to the End of The Book and it tells me that, although there'll be terrible hardship till the Jews cry out for Jesus, that The Good Book tells of Israel Winning! Oops, Spoiler Alert!!
By the way, Muhammad is traditionally said to have been born in 570 A.D. at Mecca, Saudi Arabia _NOT JERUSALEM as a matter of FACT! He then went to Mecca and it's said to have died in 632 in Medina, where he had been forced to emigrate too with his adherents in 622.
On Palestine, Mark Twain wrote;
“ ...[a] desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds-a silent mournful expanse....A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action....We never saw a human being on the whole route....There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.”
- 1867 (Quoted in Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad. London: 1881)
I wrote ALL of this, even before I finished watching the Video. This is one of my WORST habits as I'd have saved or kept my piece if I'd only finished the Video or at least arrived at the point where PM Netanyahu brings up Twain. Live, Learn, Laugh!
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