When is this nonsense going to end?
Referring to Israel as the “Zionists” is as silly as calling Americans the “Colonists”.
Hertzl, Ben Gurion, Jabotinsky, Weizmann, Ahad Ha’am, etc.. are no longer alive. The State of Israel is comprised of observant and non-observant Jews, the vast majority of whom, are not at all guided by the ideas of “secular Zionism”. Some are non-observant but nationalistic, while others are secular liberals. And the National Religious were always more motivated by the value of “Torat Eretz Yisrael” than anything written by some of the Zionist thinkers.
While they all have a different vision of what the State Israel should be.
Only a handfull still hold onto the dream of Ben Gurion, Golda Meir and others.
The majority are just Israeli Jews trying to live a life of peace, confort and prosperity.
This includes the liberals of Tel Aviv, the Yeshivas of Bnai Brak, the Settlers of Yehuda and Shomron and Kibbutzim of the Gallil.
Criticizing the Jews of Israel from some Jewish enclave, like Brooklyn, Lakewood, Baltimore or New Square is not going to hasten the Geula. The only thing that can bring the complete and final Geula is…
” עם ישראל בארץ ישראל על פי תורת ישראל ”