>>508917651they didn't the british shabbos did
and before the british wre there, the ottomans already had the land and it was quite visited mainly for religious reasons, from orthodox monks from the russian empire to islam scholars, there were jews before the zionist took over, but now they are overshadowed I unironically think that the territory of palestine was best administrated under Ottoman rule for quite a long time, and the germans also had places there to defend against the british in ww1 but we all know the result of it
Napoleon also tried to take jerusalem from the ottomans in his campaign of egypt in the 1800 early but failed
what its now the state they call israel, its as artificial and new as the united arab emirates after 1940's