Zionism in its modern form only has a tenuous link to the Jewish religion. As people have said already, God is meant to intervene to return Jews to a promised land. Zionism in truth is a political and economic policy which uses two major arguments to support it’s validity.
1). Extermination of Jewish people can only be prevented through having a Jewish homeland and the holocaust of the 20th century and pogroms of the 19th century will not be allowed to happen again
2). Israel is the one true home of Judaism and Jews because the Torah says so. Which it does about the past and kind of doesn’t in the way it is interpreted to support the current state…
It’s interesting that much of the land taken from Palestinians is fertile, productive land and the land so far left to them is generally poorer….
Zionism as a popular, mainstream view is not that old. The state of Israel was founded on and secured by the threat and practice of terror. Funny how that can be justified by Zionists, but similar behaviour by others 40, 50, 60 years later is terrorism.