The Origins of Zionism in Israel

The early Zionists were influenced not primarily by Lockean property rationales based on the imperatives of a burgeoning agrarian capitalism but by German idealism. The notion of the volk as being of the land rooted in the soil of their national homeland forms the basis for entitlement to a state based on their natural ties to that territory. There's a re-emergence perhaps of a more theologically driven justification for a Palestinian dispossession and I think we see the resurgence of some of that kind of thinking.