The primary axiom of the original secular zionist movement was that no longer was fealty to Torah and mitzvos a requirement for being part of the Jewish people. So, in the beginning, they promulgated the idea that “redeeming the land” — i.e., moving to E.Y., draining the swamps (which admittedly were quite numerous 120 years ago) and “settling the land” were enough to be considered “a good Jew.” Torah was for the golus; in the redeemed land, it was no longer necessary to obey the Torah, r”l. This is surely ????? ?”?.
In the past, all the various movements that were disloyal to the Chachmei HaTorah ended up breaking away from our people (e.g., Tzdukim, Karaim, followers of Shabtai Tzvi, among others) and went lost. The zionist atheists, however, have usurped (well, tried to usurp) the definition of a Jew. As a result, they are somewhat “stuck” to the body of the Jewish people. Incidentally, this is congruent with the Vilna Gaon’s description (in Even Shleimah) of the “erev rav” at the Ikvesa De’Meshicha, where he writes that this erev rav (he writes that there are different types of erev rav) will ‘stick’ to Klal Yisroel like the bran sticks to the wheat, and it will require a “great shaking” to separate them — the chaff — from the Jewish people — the wheat.
Nowadays, most secular Israelis chuckle at this “old time zionism” which has almost completely fallen into disuse, if not into disrepute. Most seculars in Israel today are just continuing as they were raised, were taught in school, and continue to be brainwashed by the rabid anti-Torah media. We ought to work hard toward spreading the light of Torah to them to save them from oblivion. ??? ?? ??? ????