Zionist Jews, to be specific, who were Europeans with no ties to Palestine, yet they spoke and wrote openly of turning Palestine into a Jewish majority state at a time there were ten times as many non- Jews as Jews living there.
The Concept of "Transfer" in Zionist Thinking and Practice: Historical Roots and Contemporary Challenges
"Zionist historiography provides ample evidence suggesting that from the very beginning of the Zionist Yishuv (settlement) in Palestine, the attitudes of the majority of the Zionist groups toward the indigenous Arab population ranged from a mixture of indifference and patronizing superiority to outright denial of their national rights, uprooting and 'transferring' them to neighboring countries.
"During the earliest days of Zionist settler-colonization in Palestine, the Zionist leadership grappled with what it termed the 'Arab question' (hashelahha'arvait): the problem of creating a Jewish-majority settler state in Palestine where the indigenous Palestinian Arabs were the overwhelming majority of the population and owned much of the land.
"For most mainstream Zionist leaders, the most favored solution became known as '
transfer': a euphemism denoting ethnic cleansing and the organized removal of the Palestinian population to neighboring Arab countries."