Dear Neville,
Please allow me to clarify.
Relatively – MO is starting with a lower halachic standard. If the law people go beyond that standard out of a personal commitment, that is worth noting. Every Rav in every group wants that from his lay people.
I would rather be on that other thread. Still, every group has it’s leniency and it’s weakness. The point of groups in general, is to have orthodoxy by association. Otherwise, let each family stand on it’s own merits.
The form of Anti Zionism by Mizrachi is that the government seeks it’s own power and justifications beyond advocating Mizrachi ideals. There are factions that broke of the State when they gave back land.
I don’t get the value of mixing together different topics. One who could only argue Zionism keeps bringing everything into it. In the end Zionism must be legitimized because it contains such a vast hold over all other arguments.