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KJ chusid you say:

“you have to understand that Zionism caused the total secularization of millions of Jews it happens to be that individuals within there state which became frum not due to the state at all but due to private efforts your forgetting if not for Zionism millions of people wouldn’t have been become frei in the first place”

This is a myth. The haskalah started before zionism. Assimilation was in full force well before zionism. In fact Zionism was a shift TOWARDS an embrace of (a form) of Yidishkeit. Herzl was compleyl secular he favored a complete rejection of Yidishkeit. A first. However asfter Dreyfus he changed his mid and favored an acceptace of a form of Judaism. Granted a very watered down cultural/nationalistic form. But Zionism wasnt a rejection of Jewsih Religion, quite the opposite it was a rejection of assimilation. The evil Neturei KArta misleadingly passes off Herzl’s prezionist writings as his view all along. This is not the case.