an land the used to support millions during Roman occupation.
It is not so much that there were no people, some of those were nomads no permanent, but a land greatly underpopulated and vastly under developed.
Jews cam and bought land, individually or though the land fund. They work hard and built up Israel bringing it out of the dark age and into the modern age of space flight and WWW to bring people together from space and around the world.
In addition to what Jews added to Palestine you also have to consider who they deleted:
"It all started in a small way as the first Zionist settlement in Palestine was founded with the financial help of Edmond James de Rothschild (1845-1934), a French financier who assisted a small group of the Russian Bilu Jewish Society to immigrate to Palestine in 1882.
"This Philanthropist sponsored a few more tiny settlements at the time such as Gai Oni, Roch Pina, Zichron-YaÂ’acov (which he named after his grandfather) and Rishon Letzion with settlers from around Eastern Europe.
"The single aim of all these settlements and their planners who envisioned them was to slowly and secretly transfer, drive out and ethnically cleanse Palestine of its indigenous people."
Ethnic cleansing was widely tolerated during the 19th Century, but that isn't the case today.
The Zionist Project - 1948
so? for the record-----the financial issue was money to BUY THE LAND FROM THE
OTTOMANS (remember them-----muslims) Also ----the persons who there settled were
not only "Europeans" I have relatives STILL living in rishon l'tzion with family roots
dating back to its founding in 1882 who were escapees from Islamic oppression
in middle east shariah cesspits (that's how I know the date 1882----some rishon l,tzion
person wrote a book-------and sent us a copy) gee you are dim ; what ethnic cleansing
in the 19th century------in the 19th century lots of arabs came to the future Israel for jobs---
some of them in rishon l'tzion