If you make an argument that Palestinians have a historic link to the land for centuries, why do you get to turn a blind eye to the Jewish people's multi-millenia link? Also, those European Jews who returned to the land of our ancestors brought with them the capital to recover the land from its long abuse by its residents and Ottoman rulers (who denuded it off trees to run their steam train locomotives). The overwhelming majority of Arabs (there were no Palestinians back then) whose descendants now call the land home moved there from other Middle Eastern lands because the Jews paid much higher wages than available anywhere else in the region.