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An interesting point. But as some have pointed out, if it wasn't Hitler it probably would have been Stalin, and pogroms instead of concentration camps. And it was 6 million people. I have a hard time believing that even frequent lynch mobbing would have been able to kill as many people as the systematic murder carried out by the Nazis. And the Zionist movement was already underway by WWII, the war just gave it urgency. Perhaps if the war hadn't made people hurry so quickly to find a homeland for the Jews they may have been able to take some time and negotiate a better solution than the 1946 partition.
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Good points. However, what other consequences could killing Hitler have? Just as a hypothetical situation, of course...
Sure, the Zionist movement was underway already, but it was meeting alot of resistance on most fronts. There were consistant lynch mobbings and pogroms, as you mentioned, and many Jews had ALREADY died... if the Zionist movement hadn't gained momentum soon enough, eventually the Jews would have been silently erradicated. (Speculation, of course, but is it so far fetched?)
Even if the Zionist movement had eventually succeeded without the sympathy generated from the Holocaust (which, in this hypothetical case, didn't happen), would they really have been able to get what they wanted? After all, they were pushing for the area of land which they actually got (and later took over more), and without the worldwide tear jerking, they'd probably not have been able to get so much without some MASSIVE armtwisting or some other massive genocidal act.