Not sure what your problem is. The issue is not whether Jews formed a nation or not. The issue is whether God Himself restored them, is protecting them etc. Some preachers I hear say that Israel is blossoming like a rose in fulfillment of prophesy and that God is supernaturally fighting with them etc etc.
I already mentioned a nation of Israel has to be here to be invaded and etc in the end time. That does not mean God is with them, or that He restored them.
Great, so what? The existence of a nation does not mean Jesus rules them or restored them.
Israel as a secular nation is in that land or some of it. As for the star thingie, any child in school can draw a star. If you mean that the secular nation uses a star as one of their symbols, that is meaningless.
As for the Damascus bit, looking at a commentary I see this
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Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus,.... The chief city of Syria; and which, as Aben Ezra says, lay to the east of the land of Israel, and was a very strong and fortified place: and Syria being in alliance with Israel, the Israelites might think of fleeing thither for refuge, in the time of their distress; but they are here told that they should be taken captive, and be carried to places far more remote than that: Stephen says, "beyond Babylon";
as they were, for they were carried into Media, to Halah and Habor by the river of Gozan, to the cities of the Medes; their way to which lay through Syria and Babylon;"
Amos 5, Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible, John Gill's Exposition on the Whole Bible provides Christians with deep insights through detailed analysis of Scripture and historical context.
www.studylight.org
If this commentary is correct, that is history.
