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SQUARE_ROOT:
Why do you pollute these boards with Zionist mistakes/propaganda and nonsense?
Regarding the mistakes/propaganda:
First of all, historical fact is that the Zionist victory in their war in 1967 (as in the other times) were not “miraculous” but conventional military victories.
Next, you cannot quote where the Satmar Rav allegedly claimed that the Zionists’ victory in their war in 1967 was “miracles from the Satan”. The reason you cannot quote that is that the Satmar Rav never said/wrote that. If you learn his sefarim on the topic, you will see that the Satmar Rav wrote that the Zionist victory then was, as mentioned above, a conventional military victory.
Regarding the nonsense:
First, Rav Yaakov told the Satmar Rav after learning from the latter’s sefarim that – since the latter had written that it would be worth all the time and effort to publish his sefer if even only one Jew is saved from the false belief in the Zionists – he, the Satmar Rav, had indeed convinced Rav Yaakov.
Second, you wrote:
“Reb Yaakov [Kamenetsky] felt that but for the creation of the State in 1948 [CE] a million Jews would have become assimilated as a result of the despair that followed the Holocaust and attributed the renascence [rebirth] of Soviet Jewry to the miraculous Israeli military victory in 1967.”
1. The Zionists caused and contributed to the Holocaust, as is obvious to anyone who has read the history, even if he most were unaware of that all those decades ago. Therefore, there would not have been any despair after the Holocaust because there would not have been a Holocaust to cause that despair.
2. The Zionist victory was not miraculous, as mentioned above.
3. Both the Brisker Rav and Satmar Rav stated definitely that Moshiach would have come if not for the Zionists in 1948. So, that would have been infinitely better inspiration for the Soviet Jews of the time.
4. The Zionist “State” has shmaded at least three generations of Jews, including many of those Jews from the FSU. The Zionist pseudo-State has over 7 million Jews. Around half of those identify as secular. That means that there are at least 3 million Jews there now who are victims of Zionist shmad. Around a third consider themselves “Traditional”, which means the number shmaded rises to easily 5 million Jews. Clearly (besides for it being obvious from the Torah), Hashem did not and does not want that Zionist idol “State” no matter how much “inspiration” it supposedly provided.