The 19 th century Jewish intellectuals who conceived of Zionism -- the idea that Jewish survival depends on the establishment of a Jewish state in the biblical land of Israel -- never worked out their ideology's logistics. Jewish settlement in Palestine, then part of the decaying Ottoman Empire, only proceeded piecemeal.
The 19th century Jewish who conceived of Zionism never worked out their logistics.  Jewish settlement in Palestine, then part of the decaying Ottoman Empire proceeded piecemeal.