Reply To: כחי ועצם ידי

Am Yisrael Chai: “Maybe Zionism was like that in the beginning, but now the accepted definition is just one who supports Israel”

What do you mean “someone who supports ISRAEL”???

– ISRAEL means the STATE OF ISRAEL.
– If you support “Israel”, you support the State of Israel, and you support the apikorsus-dik foundation of the State of Israel. You are a Zionist. You don’t want Yidden to live in ארץ ישראל only because of the הבטחה from הקב”ה , you believe Jews should live there and uphold a state to show the world that we are as powerful as any other nation or country in the world. You feel attached to the Land not just because it is Holy, but because you feel Jewish Pride and Power and Success. You essentially support something that all Gedolei Torah did not.

– ארץ ישראל means the land הקב”ה promised to אברהם אבינו
– If you support ארץ ישראל, you believe that it is our land, promised to Klal Yisroel by הקב”ה. You believe that the Land is soaked with קדושה. You believe that one can, and should, love ארץ ישראל because it was the land on which the בהמ”ק stood, where the שכינה resided, where Klal Yisroel lived באחדות in times of שלום – and you feel attached to it solely because of its קדושה. If you support ארץ ישראל and you are anti-apikorsus, then you are anti-Zionist, because the very attitude of Zionism is one of disregard for most of this.