That is the point in a nutshell.In addition, there is an uninterrupted Jewish presence there going back three millennium.
After all the persecution suffered by Jewish people that culminated in the Holocaust, most people were sympathetic to Jewish pleas for a tiny piece of earth that would be theirs and where they would finally be safe.
Why, oh why, can't the Arabs be gracious and let Israel live in peace in that tiny, tiny piece of land?
After all, look at the rest of the Middle East. It is hardly an example of either economic or political progress.