This involved swapping lands with those who had already settled the land in question.
During the late 19th century, the first Europeans began entering to permanently settle the land.
The English first settled the land in the 17th century.
A few years later, they returned to settle the land with their men.
Settling the land so soon after the killings would amount to an endorsement of them.
"The residents came here to settle the land of Israel," he said.
It seemed that commerce and crafts had settled the land which war could not settle alone.
There was nothing they could effectively do to settle the whole land or to change the heart of the nation.
Frontierspeople began settling the land in the 18th and early 19th century.
"We were brought up that you have to settle the land," he said.