Think they started moving over after the fall of the otterman empire fell during ww1. Palestine was sorta its on part of it so it was no longer, or ever, seen as a country. So Israel wanted to move in despite the people already living there.
The founding Zionists were planning their settler-colonial land-grab and the genocide of Palestine before that. Palestine was seen as a nation, but western powers wanted to exert power over the middle east and used “Israel” as a spearhead for that.
Think they started moving over after the fall of the otterman empire fell during ww1. Palestine was sorta its on part of it so it was no longer, or ever, seen as a country. So Israel wanted to move in despite the people already living there.
The founding Zionists were planning their settler-colonial land-grab and the genocide of Palestine before that. Palestine was seen as a nation, but western powers wanted to exert power over the middle east and used “Israel” as a spearhead for that.