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The Shalosh Shevuot are a halachic non-starter.
1. They are aggadata not halacha. In fact, none of the codes (Mishna Tora, Tur, Shulchan Aruch, Rema) mention them nor do the Rif, the Rosh or the Nossei Keilim.In fact, Ramban (Sefer HaMitzvot, Mitzvot that Rambam “Forgot”) states that there is a Tora mitzva to conquer EY is our time.
2, In his introduction to Sefer Etz Chaim, Rav Chaim Vital writes that they were only for 1,000 years.
3. According to Rav Meir Simcha the San Remo Conference’s vote in favor of a Jewish state obviated teh oaths as it is no longer a rebellion.
4. The goyim violated their oath not to persecute us “too much” on several occasions (the Crusades, the Chmielnitzki massacres, the pogroms, the Holocaust). Thus, the deal is off(Shulchan Aruch Yoreh Deah 236:6).
5. According to Rav Soloveichik (“Kol Dodi Dofek”) the miracles of the War of Independence show that Hashem has called.