The basis of the problem is that Zionism is the culmination of monotheism. The top down model of life and reality.
Democracy and republicanism originated in pantheistic cultures. The family and cycle of life as godhead/ideal. The young god, born in the spring, to the old sky god and the earth mother.
Ancient Israel was a monarchy. The Big Guy Rules. Like the religion.
Rome adopted Christianity for the monotheism, as the Empire was rising from the ashes of the Republic. The Big Guy Rules.
While the origins of the Trinity were shrouded in the Holy Ghost.
Ideals are not absolutes.
Truth, beauty, platonic forms are ideals. The codes, creeds, heroes, narratives at the core of every society are ideals, not absolutes.
Morality is an ideal, not an absolute, since it obviously can be transgressed.
The universal is the elemental, so a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which life rises, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which it fell. The light shining through and animating the film, than the stories playing out on it.
Good and bad are not some cosmic conflict, between the forces of righteousness and evil, that our cultures preach, but the basic biological binary of beneficial and detrimental, the 1/0 of sentience.
The Bronze Age tribalism of the Old Testament was outdated by the New Testament. Remember the Golden Rule? Matthew 7/12; Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.
Because what goes round, comes round. Karma.
Trying to turn the clock back two thousand years, at the crossroads of humanity, is running up against metaphysical realities that our cultural beliefs and the mobs attracted by them, cannot overpower.
The CIA came up with a term for it decades ago; Blowback.