This is a very painful thread for me to address.
Formerly, I tried to point out that Zionism is a love of Eretz Yisrael and it’s inseparable complement, it’s People, who are bound to the Torah.
I mentioned the Vilna Gaon, who sent his students to live there and would have done so himself.
That is not an insignificant thing but prophecy.
Each Jew who moves to Israel is bringing the Geulah closer.
If some of these Jews’ actions seem to be delaying the redemption, we cannot understand, but it is HaShem’s will that we be gathered and, if we merit it, the redemption will come, and if we do not merit it, it will still come.
Rather than point out all the bad that secular Zionist Jews have done, which does not include the awful distortion presented here of inciting the Arabs, one should look on the GOOD that has been achieved. A Jew SHOULD be able to live in the Eretz HaKadosh, certainly HaRav Sonnenfeld, the Guardian of Jerusalem, felt so, and encouraged a group that included the nascent Religious Zionists, including HaRav Avraham Yitzhak Kook, to travel thruout the settlements, even in a time of terror attacks. The time has, at long last, come for a return and that return involves taking responsibilty for one another and having our own government and security forces that will be responsible for our safety. It would seem to be self evident after what happened in the mid-20th Century, but just as before that time there were people who opposed, there are still those that oppose.
I can understand the caution some must feel, “Is this ordained by H’? Will I have the means to support my family? Will the influences of a seculkar culture make inroads in my family?” However, we must try to remember, “Baruch hagever yivtach b’H, haya H’ mivtacho.”
Denigrating what others have done to build up the Land and for other Jews, is really not nice, to say the least, and may be more sinful.
I am sure that the great rabbis would not advocate this and people’s miscomprehension of their words only leads to divisions that are unnecesssary.
True, one must keep their vigilance in such enviroments, just as one must protect against those who wield physical knives against us.
Please, don’t say anything if you cannot find something nice to say.
I did attempt to lighten the air here but even that was criticized.
My husband always says that Leftists have no sense of humor, so don’t go acting like a humorless Leftist.
H’ gave us the ability to laugh and to BE HAPPY, let’s try that and to love one another.
If this fails, I would advise that those who support Eretz Yisrael and it’s People, to avoid posting on such threads, as these, in the future. Let those who wish to denigrate Israel have their own private club. It does not deserve the imput of those Jews that cherish our Land and Am Yisrael.