...”rise in Arab population (such as, an over 50% rise during 17 Years 1920-1937), all due to Jews’ work in the “vacant land” of Palestine, that all of a sudden made it all attractive”....
That whole area was a dust bin before Israel cultivated and built it up.
The Arabs are a jealous and hateful people even among one another. With all the oil wealth they could of cornered out a small land area any place else in the ME and let them go at it... but then of course they’d have no reason to chide Israel all the time...nor a place to get their suicide bombers from.
Exactly. They didn’t want the land until the Jews made it worth something.