Zionism is essentially the idea of Jewish rule of their homeland from Jerusalem (hill of Zion). It’s predicated on faith across generations of time, next year in Jerusalem. In recent hisotry it’s a product of 19th C European nation self determination (natioin states emerging out of the end of empire) and the end of colonialism in the 20th C – and is caught between the two because Arabs accuse the Palestine mandate (to enable a Jewish homeland) of being a project of European colonialism. The initial conundrum was in the UN decision to partion the land into two states (with Jewish and Palestinian Arab majority) with Jerusalem separated out to be an international city. The second was in the UN offering no collective security to the Jewish homeland state when it was attacked by 5 Arab armies. The third