They had wanted to buy the entire country of the Ottomans but the Ottomans were not as dumb as they appeared.And they farmed it?
Claimed it was for farming FFS.
TRT Global - How Theodor Herzl failed to convince the Ottomans to sell Palestine
Before the British allowed European Zionists to colonise Palestine, its chief idealogue, Theodor Herzl, attempted to buy the land from the Ottomans.

