The inconvenient fact: what is commonly perceived as “Palestine” would still be a wasteland if not for the early Zionists who were as tenacious as they were mean and nasty. The woke kids in the West have no idea what it’s like when you have to fight for the right to live.
Israel by Noa Tishby:
“The Jews did not “take Palestine.” There was no Palestine for the taking. There was no state, no united governance, not much industry, or a healthcare system, or agriculture, economic or education systems. There was certainly no democracy, equality, safety, or prosperity for the people living there. The pioneers, my grandparents, turned much of the land from a place that was nearly uninhabitable into a flourishing community of agriculture and booming economic growth, a foundation for the state Israel is today.
They had no choice and nowhere else to go. This wasn’t about exceptionalism. Rebuilding a homeland, a safe haven, was their only way to survive. And it became even more urgent as the crisis for the European Jews who stayed behind was worsening by the minute.”