So few people realize how much money has been given to the Arabs of Palestine, more than the Marshall Plan used to rebuild Europe after the Second World War.
The NOMADIC Bedouin SOLD this land
First Jews bought land from the Ottoman rulers, then it was the Arab leaders.
The Arab leaders forbade regular Arabs from selling land to Jews insisting that they sell only to the Arab leaders(cheaply), the Arab leaders then sold the land to Jews ( at a greatly inflated price) planning to create riots and steal the land back.
I pretty much agree with this, not the nomadic part as much although it's partly true, but the historical record supports the fact that it was a poor barren land before the Jews started to improve the country.
Cecil Rhodes once said (if Wilbur Smith is to be believed) upon seeing a synagogue being built in Rhodesia
" Ah the birds of good fortune are roosting, good!"