During War World II, the Nazis build a wall around Jews living in the Warsaw ghetto and steadily decreased the size both by shrinking the physical perimeters and by reducing the population through starvation, sniping, shelling, carting away families and assassinating community leaders. History repeats itself. In 1995, at the Fiftieth Anniversary Memorial ceremony, the Palestinian government, with the utmost respect, laid a wreath at the site. Property rights are a determining factor in many global wars.
Many cultures believe that, ultimately, the land is everything.
At the moment, perhaps the most important regional property rights dispute is between Israel and Palestine who both lay ancient claim to the same land. Many Israelis will tell you they own the lands between the Dead Sea and the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and Lebanon by Divine Right. They believe they inherited the land when Moses led the Hebrews from slavery in Egypt to the land of the Canaanites. It was on that basis, as we know, that the United Nations created Israel for Jewish refugees after the Second World War. All of this is well and good except for one simple fact.