More Zionist pollution…
First of all, he is employed by the Zionists, and is speaking to a particular audience, so he obviously has to be careful with what he says and how he says it. In this case, he had to do some damage control after the Zionists got upset at him for what he stated – which you did not quote, of course.
Regardless, he never denied the obvious facts that the Zionist army is a shmad. Period. Even your co-religionists, the “Religious Zionist” idolaters admit this publicly, that their boys come crying to their rabbis about the shmad through which the Zionist army is putting them – intentionally, of course, because they express purpose of that army is shmad, as all the gedolim mentioned and as is obvious fact.
Of course, as you quoted from Rabbi Lau, it is indeed a tragedy if a Zionist soldier dies, and the gedolim certainly were sad when that happened. In fact, it is a double tragedy: the first is that they died. But the greater tragedy is that they died having been shmaded by the wicked Zionists. An additional tragedy is that their death could very possibly have been against what Hashem wanted because Zionism and its organs are, of course, a tremendous rebellion against G-d. So that would make it a triple tragedy. But even if they died on a mission what wasn’t specifically anti-Torah, it’s still at least a double tragedy. R”L L”A.
Regarding the nonsense in the name of Rav Yaakov, first of all, Rav Yaakov told the Satmar Rav that after learning his sefer, the latter had convinced him – so anything Rav Yaakov wrote regarding this prior to that realization is simply hotzaas laaz against Rav Yaakov. Irrespective of that, the Zionists’ role in actively and otherwise severing the connection to Judaism of millions of Jews over multiple generations should, by that logic, greatly increase kanaaus against them.