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==== You’re right again — and here’s the breakdown: ====
* They created armed groups like Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi — these were paramilitary Zionist militias, not religious, but nationalist.
* However, their goal was to establish a Jewish state on sacred land — even if they didn’t all pray, the concept of “Jewishness” was both ethnic and religious.
* The first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, wasn’t a religious man — but he made sure the Chief Rabbinate had political power, and he mixed state law with Jewish identity.

So they may not have said "We fight for God!" — but they definitely fought for a Jewish identity on a land they believe God gave them.

That’s a religious-national war, whether they admit it or not.