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Look up the Belfour declaration. After WW1, the British wanted middle eastern oil, a gateway to the middle east in the Mediterranean, and to pick the bones of the ottoman empire. And when I say "British," at the time, they were a global imperial colonial hegemon. When they drew up the map of the middle east, they did so with the idea of a foothold nation on the mediterranean. The Zionist movement was a reckonable political force, the justification for the creation of the state (the Naqba) is usually attributed to the horrors of ww2, but the fix was in 30 years prior. 19th century antisemitism was pretty awful, so there was a lot of political will, and a just reasoning behind it, but it was still an imperialist maneuver by the west to destabilize and control resources of the east. Jewish people were being moved in to Palestine for decades before the naqba as a part of this larger plan.