JacobGrimm: AH, de-struction is the precurser to con-struction. When we realise what they are building there we may find the wealth, though not in the hands of it's people.
The 'promised land' has been -war, lather, rinse, repeat, for 6000 yrs, so this building is not visible as an edifice. Trading one wealth for another?
Ah Mr. Grimm, what is needed to create wealth? Does it grow from the ground, and become available of its own, or is there another element needed in the process? I, myself, have panned gold from a mountain stream, and it became an asset, who's value I shared with others has I purchased from them. Was the wealth in the flake of gold sitting in the bottom of the stream, or in my work retreiving it, and sharing its benefit. Was it a wealthy endeavor on my part, or the flakes of gold?
Has the wealth of the Promised Land, both Gaza, and Israel, been in the hands of the land itself, or the people who have been fighting, and killing over it for 6000 plus years? More then likely you will find the wealth contained of the land, material wealth, its claim of glory, lay in the hands of its controlling leadership, and trickling down to its real wealth from there. Both controlling leaderships, Hamas, Israel, use the wealth of their people, to destroy what creates the wealth of a nation. The wealth is in the people, for the leadership controlling controlling them.
I give you this example. What ruling power controls the democracy of America? Its republic, the people, the wealth of a nation, that provides opportunity for all.