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1. On the contrary, they take and take and take. Some then bite the hand that feeds them and defame the Medina.
2. The Turks? Erdogan? You really are living in never, never land. As for the Kotel, Arab houses were right up against it leaving almost no room for daveners. The Medina razed the houses and built a nice plaza.
Abelleh, some say Rambam does not count it as a separate mitzva because he includes it in yishuv Eretz Yisrael.