“These photos disrupt the engineered cultural and political mystification of the Nakba that has, for generations, made its undoing seem impossibly remote.” —Mohammed El-Kurd www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Odds are that it was pretty much the same as it was during the time it was an Ottoman province. Are you including pictures of the kibbutzniks who moved there prior to WWII and bought land from the owners of record?
"God as a favourite real estate agent" is a phrase that will stick with me forever now, when it comes to moral/religious certainty no matter who is speaking.