Al-Andalus

"'The heart of science and civilization blah blah blah, look at what the natives did after blah blah blah' You were (lucky) conquerors and got BTFO'd as soon as someone could organize some resistance, go cry about it"

"forget israel. a bunch of poor first-generation jews from eastern europe turned los angeles from a dusty outpost into one of the most important cities in the world by creating the film industry and hollywood. now they live better than their ancestors could have ever dreamed, in mansions in a place w"