rationalfrummie, you are parroting Zionist propaganda which, in this particular case, is an outright lie.
Rav Chaim Brisker said that the goal of Zionism is shmad and they need a state for this end, not the other way around. In other words, the goal was and is shmad. The means to that goal is a state.
His son, the Brisker Rov, Rav Yitzchak Zeev held the same way and liHavdil bein Chaim liChaim, Rav Meshulam Dovid Soloveichik shlit”A holds the same. So does Rav Moshe Sternbuch shlit”A.
But you don’t have to believe these Torah giants because it’s anyways plain historical fact (and current events, for that matter, also indicate this quite clearly), that these Torah giants are 100% correct.
Read “A Threat From Within” by Dr. Yakov M. Rabkin, Professor of History at University of Montreal.
Read the Nazi-like (before the Nazis) libels that Zionists said about their own people. Like “A Jew’s life is a dog’s life”, etc.
The Dreyfuss Affair was not at all the reason.