And who did these investments serve? The same “investments”facilitated the depopulation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine because the investments were for the immigrating Jews. The goal of Zionism, as stated by Herzl himself, was to leave the Palestinian population spiritless and penniless and you’re trying to argue that they brought “investments”.
In 1895, Herzl, the founder of Zionism, wrote in his diary:
“We must expropriate gently the private property on the state assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly. Let the owners of the immoveable property believe that they are cheating us, selling us things for more than they are worth. But we are not going to sell them anything back.”
You’re trying to hard to play devils advocate. Your argument is the same one that every settler colonial entity makes that they brought “enlightenment” to the people they inevitably exploited, enslaved, murdered or displaced. It’s absurd and insulting