Jews don't get a pass "just because"

[Waratah]

How can you say religion has very little to do with it when "the jews will stop at nothing to re-claim their promised lands". I thought the promised lands story was part of their religion.

It has very much become a national goal: do you really think that Theodor Herzl, the founder of zionism, was the best jew around?
He even opposed the "chosen people" type of superiority claims, even though he had in his mind the boundaries of the Torah. This is due to the fact that there is no other source that describes the Jewish homelands better in detail.

I do not know whether Theodor Herzl was the best jew around at the time, but he was not the founder of zionism. I also do not see how what you have written supports your claim that it has very little to do with religion.