alt Hacker News> we realized it was time to return to our own country
The problem is that it was someone else's country.
"Returning" after 2000 years and telling the people who have lived there for centuries that you rightfully own the place is insane. No one anywhere on earth would accept that.
Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel for 3,500 years.
Many more returned home after the Holocaust and rebuilt cities, created new ones like Tel Aviv, turned sand into productive land.