@akuperma
@Yabia Omer
Actually, the purpose of Zionism was and is, as Rav Chaim Brisker explained a century ago, long before 1948, simply shmad.
He said that people think that the Zionists shmad in order to achieve a State. But it’s the opposite: Zionists need a State in order to shmad.
The main goal of Zionism, as proudly noted on any of their web sites, is to change the Jewish people from a G-dly Torah people to a godless land-based nationalist nation.
That’s the purpose of Zionism. Always was and, of course, still is.
But, yes, chareidim (in and out of Israel) are living proof that Zionism is just a Big Lie and shmad.