Dear Rational,
There is an eloquent speech/essay (I don’t remember which.) from Rabbi Meir Kahane making exactly that case. Let the UN be founded upon keeping their oaths and we will keep ours. Which leads to the traditional views of the oaths. The Minchas Elazer wrote as a polemic to the long responsa of the Avnei Nezer, which has a lot of practical advice on moving to Eretz Yisrael. (Besides for stating that even the Rambam considered it a mitzvah even today.) The Avnei Nezer makes no mention of the oaths. And there is no record of them being considered by any of the religous movements. The idea to apply the oaths to the ongoing discussion was and still is considered a chiddush. The question is, why was it self-understood that the oaths are not a problem?
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