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Just Emes:
I already mentioned, again, that your understanding of the facts and your halachic interpretations of the same are wrong.
Do you really think that anyone holds that the UN is some sort of Sanhedrin? The British, of all nations, abstained from (not agreed to) that vote and the Arabs living there obviously did not agree. This was clearly not biShalom, as you yourself admit, and certainly not with universal permission. Why do you persist in promoting what is clearly not emes?
As well, do you really think the Brisker Rav and others who were living there at the time were not aware of this principle of “haBa lihargicha” when they themselves were living that danger? Yet he and the others there at the time were VERY MUCH against founding the State.
You also continue to maintain your mistaken conviction that the State is “neutral in principle”. Our gedolim for over 100 years have clearly stated that Zionism and the State is shmad in principle (and not even as a side-product but in principle), and not at all “neutral”.
There was and is no halachic justification for Zionism. Does that wording satisfy you?