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I skipped Avira’s snide remark on Israel that others are protesting because it is off-topic and he mentioned his position before. Combining multiple threads, I have an impression of Avira’s deah (ad presumably his teachers) is being rich on detail, whether halachik or factual, but somehow veering away from important central issues. I hope this is not what Brisker method evolved into.
Complaining about the Rebbeim forced to teach zionism, you somehow ignore the fact that these Rebbeim and students got a chance to walk streets of Yerushalaim in relative safety instead of dying in Camps and Gulags. The animosity is understandable historically and was pretty reasonable when the Zionist experiment was unsure to survive, but at this point seems most of religious Jews appreciate having a country, imperfect as it is. And you yourself proposed a simple solution to the Rebbe’s dilemma – do not partake funds from the Zionist entity, as you surely wouldn’t in Ottoman empire.