Why do you think a bunch of Christian white supremacists are so fucking set on the Jewish people controlling Israel?

Because it gives them a non-Arab client state in the Middle East. Simple geopolitics. The overlap with fundie end-days religious wet dreams is just a bonus.

Bannon is entirely cynical and has no religion in truth. Neither does Thiel. They are in league with the religious right, fully intent on betraying and subordinating them after they achieve absolute power.

They are playing the religious people, the religious leaders on the right are playing their own people too more often than not, but also see themselves as playing the business lobbies like these tech bros. They think they are using them back.