Always_Ask_Questions:
I find it strange to be asked to quote from a gadol’s Torah when that is outside the scope of the thread. Why in the world would you even ask for that? People came to this thread to discuss the topic at hand, not for a general Torah shiur.
Next, the Or Sameach and Netziv did not have a “more nuanced view” of early Zionists. From where did you get that?
The alleged piece by the Or Sameach, for example, which the Zionists love to abuse, was limited to settling the land with permission of the gentiles and in a totally non-political and peaceful way. That’s it. It also affirmed the halachic reality of the Oaths. On the other hand, the Zionist invasion of the holy land over a century ago and the Zionists’ wars and terror against the British and Arabs, which is what the Zionists did in reality, were very much not what the Or Sameach permitted. That was all obviously grossly forbidden, including a terrible violation of those Oaths, not that the Zionists cared in the slightest.
In general, it is a feature of Zionist propagandists to misquote, distort and lie, in the hope that readers will not know any better than to assume that they are being told real Torah truth rather than, liHavdil, Zionist lies and propaganda.