ROB:
Your “answer” to Joseph would be funny if it weren’t so sad.
You seriously believe that you should live in E”Y despite any dangers that may be present there only because it is Eretz Yisrael, even though it is indisputable that Hashem kicked us out and Mashiach has not yet returned us?
Regardless, there is a mitzvah to live in whatever place will allow you to best serve Hashem. “VaChai BaHem”, last I checked, is part of the Torah. As are the rest of the mitzvos of the Torah. Even Rabbi Herschel Schachter stated in a recent Yom HaAtzamos address that if one’s own/family’s spirituality would be better outside of E”Y then one should certainly remain outside of E”Y.
The sheer absurdity, of elevating a precept like ahavas haAretz (or, more accurately and lihavdil, Zionism) into the greatest obligation superseding all else including one’s physical and spiritual life, is sad to see.
As the Brisker Rav noted, the State they have managed to achieve is the GREATEST triumph of the Satan since the Cheit HaEigel. He was obviously not joking and just obviously quite aware of things like the destruction of both Battei Mikdash, Shabsai Tzvi, etc. The founding of the State of Israel tops them all as the Satan’s greatest feat. Your post is but a small illustration of this.