Over half of Israel is the Negev desert "one of the world's most arid and inhospitable deserts". When you see the size of the West Bank in comparison to what is left of Israel, 96-97% of which was offered to the Palestinians, along with other Israeli land under Clintons deal, but which Arafat rejected, it's quite obvious this isn't about "stolen land" it's all about religion and the politics of Russia, who created the PLO, the Middle East and the West.
"It (the Negev) covers more than half of Israel, over some 13,000 km2 (5,000 sq mi), or at least 55% of the country's land area. It forms an inverted triangle shape whose western side is contiguous with the desert of the Sinai Peninsula, and whose eastern border is the Arabah valley."
