Idyllic:
You might want to do more research into the history of Zionism. It's actually a very new idea compared to the long history of Judaism, and until WWII was largely regarded as a dangerous and unsanctified heresy. A significant portion of the Orthodox/Hasidic Jewish population -still- defines Zionism in those terms. Check these guys out:
True Torah Jews Against Zionism
They go into far more detail than I can here, but suffice it to say that until very recently, the political re-occupation of the Holy Land by the Jews was seen as effrontery to God: "We get the land back when the Messiah -gives- it back. Until then, it's not ours to give OR TAKE" was the essence of mainstream Jewish teaching until Theodore Herzl came along and turned 1800-ish years of Jewish tradition regarding the Holy Land on its' head.
Edited to add: I would have been all in favour of the Jews being given, say, Germany. Japan. Any piece thereof. Maybe Vichy France. The Germans and Japanese, after all, started the whole beastly mess and surrendered unconditionally after engaging in a series of war-crimes and crimes against humanity which have since set the standard for atrocity and scale of mass murder. The terms of the Treaty Of Versailles were ridiculous and unfair, but the problem of this humiliation was much worsened by the fact that Germany and Germans were allowed to believe that they had not been defeated. Japan, in particular, could probably do with the sorts of improvements that would have come at that point with the arrival of several hundred thousand armed and very pissed-off settlers supported by the US military. I'm sure Stalin would have been happy to get the Soviet Jews off his hands as well. Maybe the creation of something like Israel in the land of people who actually had it coming would have convinced the Japanese that after being caught raping entire cities, and after having had two cities vaporised, they were this time going to learn to goddamnedbehaveorelse. This would include, among other things, not erecting statues of generals responsible for horrors such as Nanking, along with bothering to teach their schoolchildren more about WWII (and how the Japanese Empire came to be involved) than just "there was a war, and then the Americans dropped two horrible atomic bombs and killed lots and lots of innocent people."