Ujm, i do differ, possibly, in one way – there were gedolim who had positive views of the state early on, including the ponevezher rov. That doesn’t mean that they would say so now, or that we are even allowed to follow them in contrast with the gedolei olam such as the chazon ish and brisker rov who did not hold that way. But that view doesn’t mean that they believed in nationalism, or other foreign ideologies – they viewed the state as a Hatzolah, not as an ideal.
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