Any attempt to frame the fight in the Land of Israel as a land dispute is way off the mark. It never has been, nor will it ever be mainly about “who’s land is it?” The mindset that sees battles in the Middle East as largely being land disputes is based on a Western notion that places a high priority on a mindset that is more based on a financial and land-based way of thinking. In that mindset, compromise tends to solve many issues, at least partially. 

But in the Middle East, among the majority of the Arab population, the main aspect driving most of the tension between Arabs and other Arabs and between Arabs and Jews is religious. The fervor is one that cannot be worked out via compromise at a board table in a pastoral location. It probably does not have any solution outside of one side accepting defeat to another. Religious fervor works very differently than “this is my land, not yours” fervor.

Of course, once a family lives in an area for a couple of generations, they build up a bond to the area and claim an affinity to justify their cause. But that does not mean that that affinity is the fuel that drives them.