Reply To: If this is what we've been waiting 2000 years for…

Rationalist: Of course it is a letdown. I’ll tell you what it’s like. (I don’t know whose moshol this is.)

So the queen sinned and the King kicked her out of the house. But she was crying to come back. So finally he said: Ok, you can come back and live her. But I’m leaving.

G-d let us come back, but without Him. Yes, I’m let down. I want a country where Hashem will be shoreh shechina on us. I want a country that will be run according to the Torah. I want a country that will be devoted to making a kiddush hashem.

And that’s not to say that Israel never makes a kiddush Hashem–they do. But they mix it in with all their chillul hashem.