Metro: We hold of that Gemara but we don’t hold like the Ashuris opinion even to the other extreme. I have to look it up again, but I believe we hold that Mishum Yishuv Eretz Yisrael even a Melacha D’Oraisa is Muttar. There are certainly stories of R’ Shlomo Zalman Auerbach telling people they can work the land on Shabbos in cases where the land was for all intents and purposes Hefker and whoever did stuff with it first could claim it. So he let Jews plow it and stuff even on Shabbos so they could get to it before the Arabs.
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