I would appreciate if you can let me know if I’m wrong anywhere in my post.
1. The old yishuv definitely tried to make parnassah and therefore tried agriculture as well. But they didn’t seize it from anyone. In fact, they lived peacefully with their Arab/Muslim neighbors. So they might have been trying agriculture, but not for Zionist reasons.
3. It’s true that Petach Tikva and others were originally established by Haredim.
Still, would you compare those settlements to today’s settlemenents? Weren’t they established as simply a place for Jews to live in stretching out of the cities, contrary to today’s settlements which are established solely to “live the land”? Also, I wouldn’t compare them because they weren’t taken away from Muslims or even viewed by Muslims as annexed from them.
I look at these aforementioned settlements as Bnei Brak or Beit Shemesh. Again, please let me know if I’m wrong.