If you listen to Natanyahu's speeches (translated), he heavily invokes religion to garner support from Jews, people whose religion is Judaism. To them, it is a religious "war," they are the chosen people, and their enemy are monsters and animals, so it's not murder to slaughter them. You can talk to almost any Jew and they will matter of factly agree with what I am saying.

Most nation states like America are also murderous, but for Israel, it transcends that, it is religious. If you want to talk about tricks (and they're all about tricks), I don't see it as Zionism versus Judaism. The real trick, which they invoke daily, is that somehow, they are the victim.