What does religion have to do with civilization? Can you say that christians in america and christians in africa have the same civilization? In my opinion, the civilization of a certain geographic region belongs to the people who live there. In the case of Palestine, though the religions in the area may be a byproduct of Judaism, the civilization belongs to the people who have been living there for over 1400 years, whilst the Jews who replaced the original inhabitants are from civilizations from all over the world and know very little about the regions history and civilization and over the last thousand years or so, contributed nothing to it. Also for historical accuracy, the Palestinians, that is the inhabitants of Jerusalem before world war I, were not only muslims. The multi-religion area was also a home for christians and Jews, who were thrown out of their homes in 1948 just like their muslim friends and neighbors.