Zionists love to reprint American author Mark Twain's depiction of 19th century Palestine as a wasteland because they take that as justification for taking the land. If there's nobody there, are you taking it by force? However, if you read his full travelogue, he does not depict it as being empty. He records all kinds of encounters with local Arabs. But even if you just take literally the one passage that depicts bleakness, Zionists are taking the wrong message. The message should be, if you live in the land and fail to be exemplary Jews who keep the mitzvos then HaShem will drive you from the land and lay it to waste.
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