Throughout this interview, Mr. Rosenberg stated and obviously believes that the land of Israel, including the West Bank, was taken from the Arabs by Jews who largely arrived after 1947.  Mr. Rosenberg is mistaken and Ms. Glick did not set the record straight as to the actual historical record.

All records and chronicles of Palestine in the past thousand years (including, for example, Mark Twain's) noted that the land was desolate and unoccupied.  There were only a few thousand Jews there, but there were not many more Arabs, either. But in 1858, the Sultan in Istanbul decided to allow private ownership and sale of the land to European Jews.  As the Jews of Europe started returning to Palestine by the thousands, on land that had been purchased by them or by the Zionist movement, they drained coastal swampland, planted orchards, and established irrigation that made the desert bloom.  Thousands of Arabs from other lands followed the Jews into Palestine in the late 1800s because there were jobs there.  When Israel was established as a state, most of the Arabs living in Palestine, traced their family history in Palestine only back no more than three generations on land they did not privately own.  The Jews, however, were the actual legal owners of much of the land that became the State of Israel, and also land in the West Bank, that was given to the new state of Jordan.