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somejew, you bring an impressive list. Several issues with that:
(1) there are other T’Ch that had different opinions. They may be of lower stature, in your opinion, or the list might be shorter, but making a list of T’Ch and omitting some of them makes you into an unreliable witness. Maybe you are doing it in the heat of the argument, but this is really a non-Torah attitude
(2) you might simply be dismissing those who disagree as not T’Ch. Look up “no true scotsman” phenomenon and get back to us
(3) you need to understand in detail what exactly those T’Ch were holding and against what. Pre-medina and earlier years in Israel had very ideological and anti-religious people involved. Currently, most non-religious Israelis are stam non-religious rather than ideological, and there are so many religious people involved in Israeli politics and government that issues might be very different.