https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_the_Ottoman_Empire

The partition of the Ottoman Empire (30 October 1918 – 1 November 1922) was a geopolitical event that occurred after World War I and the occupation of Constantinople by British, French, and Italian troops in November 1918.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.

The family history of Netanyahu is a peak example of Israel being a political project mostly by Europeans, or European Americans. It is the "European" answer to the problem of "European" Antisemitism and many aspects of the logic that bound Antisemitism and Zionism at the time of Netanyahus parents persist to this day.

You can neither look at the history of Israel nor at today's Israel without looking at Europe (and the US) as well.