Gamanit: Life in eretz Yisrael in Ottoman and Turkish times was not always a bed of roses. Access to many mekomos kedoshim was either forbidden or extremely dangerous. The kosel was a tiny area, filled with garbage and up against a house, that was very difficult to access. In the Ottoman times, at the very least, there was certainly a draft (while we all know of people who changed their names at Ellis Island, we don’t hear about those who changed their names to avoid the Ottoman draft) to an army which was a lot more of a sonei Yisrael than the Israeli army, believe it or not (and the fact I have to point that out is a bit sad). The Chevron massacre and massacres in Yerushalayim, Tzfas, and elsewhere all took place in the times of the Ottomans and the British.
We won’t have perfection until Moshiach, so since we know that, why blame Israel so much? At least Israel gave us some benefits like I mentioned above, and is a country of Jews. Kol Yisrael areivim zeh lazeh- why shouldn’t I celebrate with 6 million of my fellow Jews that they have such a uniquely Jewish place to be? (And yes, it is uniquely Jewish, even if it’s not as Jewish as many would like it to be.)