Israel made the desert bloom — claim check
Pre-1948 Palestine was an agricultural society whose citrus industry was the country's leading export — the Jaffa orange was a Palestinian brand built by tens of thousands of Palestinian growers and workers, as historians Mustafa Kabha and Nahum Karlinsky document in The Lost Orchard. A UN survey of
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