Four motives

"Israel's founders, taken together, had four motives for founding the state:

1. To protect the Jews from a hostile world by creating a Jewish homeland.
2. To create a socialist (not communist) Jewish state.
3. To resurrect the Jewish nation in order to re-assert Jewish identity in history.
4. To create a nation based on Jewish religiosity and law rather than Jewish nationality alone." 

(Yoram Hazony, The Jewish State, 2000; page 78).

The biblical regime focuses on each of these factors from a different angle.

1. Rather than protect Jews from a hostile world, the biblical regime would make a Jewish state to identify how other peoples are being oppressed by those who would oppress the Jews.
2. Rather than create a socialist state, the biblical regime would create a state founded on consecrated mitigating institutions.
3. Rather than resurrect Jewish identity the biblical regime would define Jewish identity as embracing the stranger, as doing the bidding of the divine ruler in the exercise of xenia.
4. Rather than basing the nation on religiosity and law or on nationality the biblical regime would establish a nation based on a material abundance which enables a covenant that honors the land and promotes the dignity of the ordinary citizen.