The Myth of Stolen Arab Land.

thejidf.org

Another excellent article:

In 1920, Labor Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion expressed his concern about the Arab fellahin, whom he viewed as “the most important asset of the native population.” Ben-Gurion said “under no circumstances must we touch land belonging to fellahs or worked by them.” He advocated helping liberate them from their oppressors. “Only if a fellah leaves his place of settlement,” Ben-Gurion added, “should we offer to buy his land, at an appropriate price.”

The Peel Commission in 1937 found that the accusation of stolen lands was baseless, as it was also later on.

The Jews were paying exorbitant prices to wealthy [Arab] landowners for small tracts of arid land. “In 1944, Jews paid between $1,000 and $1,100 per acre in “Palestine”, mostly for arid or semiarid land; in the same year, rich black soil in Iowa was selling for about $110 per acre.”28