bin_forgottin: Palo...The Zionist Movement didnt start until the internal combustion engine was invented...I say they are related.

rebuttal:actually zionist or the idea of a jewish state ges back to brittain as early as 1600's around time of cromwell.

http://christianactionforisrael.org/4thcongress2.html

The rise of Israel: a history of a revolutionary state By Jonathan R. Adelmanhttp://books.google.com/books?id=NNF7GPdO8zQC&pg=PT208&lpg=PT208&dq=oliver+cromwell+puritan+brittish+israel&source=bl&ots=RreOHjbPQ2&sig=37PwnF8Xb6dTaETBM9BcAg3cZyg&hl=en&ei=R-DDSuCrH8zPlAfXrajIBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

...during the english revolution,the Puritans,led by Oliver Cromwell,were sympathetic to the hebraic idealism of the bible and jewish suffering,and hoped to fullfill a prophecy of a jewish restoration of a jewish homeland in palestine.

Other books from this period detailing the theory were Ezra Stiles' The United States elevated to Glory and Honorhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_United_States_elevated_to_Glory_and_Honor, published in 1783, and Richard Brothers' A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies and Timeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Revealed_Knowledge_of_the_Prophecies_and_Times, published in 1794. Also cited as an original work is Rev. John Wilson's Our Israelitish Origins which was originally published during the 1840s

A REVEALED KNOWLEDGE OF THE PROPHECIES AND TIMES, Book the First, wrote [sic] under the direction of the LORD GOD and published by His Sacred Command, it being the first sign of Warning for the benefit of All Nations; Containing with other great and remarkable things not revealed to any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem by the year of 1798 under their revealed Prince and Prophet (i.e., Richard Brothers). London, Printed in the year of Christ 1794.

Lovers of Zion: A Brief History of Christian Zionismhttp://www.zionism-israel.com/christian_zionism/Christian_Zionism_History_Ice.html