Reply To: Zionism, Why the Big Debate?

I still don’t get all the commotion. Religious Zionism is simply the belief that the Jewish people belong in EY… not because of any nationalistic reasons, but because Hashem gave us EY as seen in the Torah. At worst, it’s a violation of the 3 shevuos which is not one of the 613 Mitzvos, it’s not one of the 13 ikkarim of the Rambam, and it’s not even brought down lehalacha by most poskim. The machlokes between Religious Zionists and Religious Anti-Zionists is simply how to understand that Gemara, which like I said, isn’t brought down lehalachah by the poskim. It’s such a small betail within the world of halachah and hashkafah. Why does this tiny disagreement cause such a huge machlokes among Klal Yisroel? It doesn’t make sense!