I’m sure I’m not the first person to make this observation, but it’s ironic that people of a more right-wing hashkafa both 1) tend to insist on an all-encompassing Hashgacha Pratis (everything is bashert, there is no such thing as a coincidence, etc.), and 2) believe that there is no religious significance whatsoever to the foundation or existence of the State of Israel. These beliefs conflict, no? (I’m not criticizing the strong version of hashgacha pratis — I believe in this myself.)
The Satmar Rebbe after the 1967 war even claimed that it was Satan, not God, who allowed the Israelis to recapture Yerushalayim. Other gedolim, such as R’ Yaakov Kamenetsky, disagreed with him and ascribed the event to God, even though they were not sympathetic to the Medina in general.
If God is so great that He’s totally beyond human comprehension, then why couldn’t he accomplish some of his goals through people with secular ideologies? After all, settling in Eretz Yisroel has been described as equivalent to all the other mitzvos. (Sifrei Devarim 80).