Israel to take over West Bank land

[joebloggs]

Israel in 70 years has turned a mostly desert area into land producing food, wine but are desperately short of water. They got over it with desalination plants.

Well why don't they go and grab some desert then, instead of?

Local Israeli settlements said they hoped to build on the land, which Palestinian officials said included many olive groves.

[Pete/London]

Well why don't they go and grab some desert then, instead of?

Because it would not make any strategic sense, taking over the WestBank would give them an easier defended border, also , a very important source of water.
They like olives as well, and I reckon most of the land owners would take money if it was offered.