[Romulus]

Population expands as agriculture and technology develop to support it. A hundred years ago the Holy land was more primitive than it is today, but you may be sure that the land was occupied and exploited to the best ability of the people living there at the time. In future generations, technology may well support vastly denser population worldwide, the USA included. But I do not think you'd concede that the USA is currently " a Land virtually laid waste with little population".

[Magician]

The concept that the Palestinians (whoever they are) have an exclusive claim on the land died with the 1947 UN vote partitioning the the British Mandate into Jewish and Arab halves. You're singing your song in outer space where no one can hear it. Or wants to hear it.

[Sabertooth]

Population expands as agriculture and technology develop to support it. A hundred years ago the Holy land was more primitive than it is today, but you may be sure that the land was occupied and exploited to the best ability of the people living there at the time.

How does that follow? Aren't some farmers better than others? Do humans always function at the best of their abilities? I live in Los Angeles. We have very little agriculture here anymore. Yet our population is large and still growing. Much of what you say here is shaky. And irrelevant.

Did the land become more productive after the Jewish settlements became more numerous?

Yes.

Did scores of thousands of Arabs immigrate to the Holy Land from elsewhere in the Arab world?

Yes.

Do these people make up the bulk of the ancestral population for the so-called "Palestinians.

Also yes.

So are the ahistorical claims of the "Palestinans specious?

Bingo.