Reply To: Chief Rabbi: Could we sit and study Torah without soldiers?

Nevile, Rav Kook said that explicitly. He also told Ben Yehuda to do teshuva (he replied “Maybe” and died the next day, which was Shabbat). He also eulogized Herzl and explained why the secularists are so ant-Torah – their job is to build the material side of EY and gather in the exiles. This makes them think that there is only the material side.

Sam, I have not heard that. However, the Gra (quoted in “Kol HaTor”) and Rav Teichtal (“Em HaBanim Semeicha”) say that opponents of yishuv EY have been infected by the spies’ sin.