There are millions of illegal immigrants in the US. Probably just more illegal immigrants from Thailand than Jewish immigrants in your video.
How much land have they stolen? Because if they've been stealing land--going in with firearms or even just with sticks and driving the owners off the land in order to claim it for their own, that's something law enforcement and the FBI should be all over. And the legal immigrants ... getting their 1/2 acre or whatever upon entering the country! All that land going from citizens and residents to immigrants.
Doesn't work that way, does it? Immigrant =/= illegal seizure of land. Something else is needed. Like the actual illegal seizure of land. At the time, of course, there was a problem in Palestine. It was illegal for Jews to own land. They often didn't know it and would "buy" land only to have their deeds revoked. Dumb immigrants, being taken advantage of like that (and we act like only racist Americans do such things). The Jews set up some front organizations or got Palestinians to buy land for them, but the latter was dangerous because the Palestinians might face execution as a result. In one case, a "settlement" in Gaza, Jews bought a piece of land in the '30s and lost it. They re-bought it but lost it during the Egyptian occupation of Gaza. Then they bought it a third time after '67 and, well, Hamas took it when the Israeli government forced the 'settlers' to leave because under Palestinian laws Jews still can't legally own that land, even if they paid for it three times.
For the serious "taking of Palestinian land" you have to look at two main events. The first was the assumption of state ownership of state-held lands when Israel declared independence; this land had been held by the Ottoman Turks, then taken over by the British, so I'm not sure it could be described as "Palestinian" in a legal sense, even though the locals treated it often as their own. Under Ottoman law a kind of squat-farming on one type of state-owned land was permitted, with ownership granted to the person who used the land for agricultural purposes for so many years. The result was that the Ottomans would go in and destroy the groves or crops to preserve state ownership if it was land they wanted to keep.
The second was the confiscation of land owned by Palestinians no longer in residence after they fled or were expelled. This was precisely mirrored by what happened to Jewish land and real property under the Jordanian and Egyptian occupied territories after Jews fled or were expelled.
This is still the primary way of confiscating land for new settlements, with a wrinkle. The Ottoman deed system was a nightmare and *nobody* has really fixed it in some parts of Israel. Often there are competing deeds. In some cases land was fraudulently sold to Jews and the sale revoked after a new deed issued. In others, the land was fraudulently sold to Arabs and a fake deed issued. Deeds were produced for private ownership of state-owned lands, but the paperwork not actually valid. Absentee owners might own land and sell it, while local felaheen seemed to own it and would sell the same land. The Jordanians transferred property for which deeds already existed. This was a society where corruption was (and still is) rampant and often not seen to be a moral problem unless it's publicly exposed, and often considered a virtue if it helps your family/clan or hurts the hated Jew (or other hated group). Even Hamas' anti-corruption campaigns hurt primarily non-Hamasians with the occasional Hamas figure that needs purging, and would probably celebrate the defrauding some groups. As governments came and went, they often transferred property without properly invalidating the deeds of those not sitting on the land.
But this is just ownership of land. Don't confuse ownership of land with control over territory by a sovereign state. As "all" of the territory held by Israel became Israeli and presumably under the control of a Jewish state, much was still owned by Arabs.
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