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Hakatan, My grandfather and great grandfather (a’h) were chareidi, were connected to the greatest torah leaders of their time and place, in prewar Galitzia, and had a significant mesorah from their rabbinic forebears. They were in themselves very incvolved in the community. They wore chassidish levush on shabbes and yom tov in Krakow – bekeshe and shtraimel – and do you know where they davened? the Mizrachi shul. I get my mesorah from them, not the likes of you.
My other grandfather and grandmother were yerushalmim, my grandfather went to the original eitz chaim yeshiva, and my great uncle was a talmid at the chevron yeshiva when it was in chevron. They passed on a love of torah, am yisroel and ertez yisroel that crystallized itself in religious zionism. Their mesorah is also clear.
It is unfortunate that you didn’t have the brocho of having such a clear mesorah.
About 10 years ago, a friend gave me the sefer Em Habonim Semeicha By Rav Yissochor Teichtal, and his sources supporting a return to eretz yisroel and jewish nationalism are so numerous as to make it impossible to quote them here. Read the sefer.
I don’t know whose kool aid you’re drinking, but the enterprise of the medina as imperfect as it is is not failing, it is thriving. And within that thriving enterprise, more torah is being learned and supported than ever in Jewish history. Perhaps it is that obvious contradiction of the predictions of those who hate it that has you up in arms, but it will continue to thrive and still welcome you, despite your disdain.