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@ZSK,
You have a point but a few things.
1) Zionism of 100 years ago was mixed to. There were many gedolim and chashuva yidden who did indeed hold of having our own land in EY even before moshaich. Mizrachi was even part of agudah at one point. No torah jew held that its an excuse to forsake our torah and become not religious. And then the question became how much to cooperate with secular forces who were using it as an excuse to say we cvs don’t need the torah. Many of the gedolilm like the imeri emes zl and others were upset at R Kook Z”L for that cooperation. They weren’t upset about his ideal that we should have a homeland in EY. But then there were other gedolim who were against both ideologies such as the Stmar reba, R Elchanon and Brisker rav zl
2) Zionism of today. Today we shifted to a “post zionist” scoiety. Many years ago the jewish observer published an in-depth discussion about this. In that society, the modern day seculars aren’t saying oh if we have a homeland we don’t need to stay frum. And they aren’t trying to make you not frum. They are simply not religious. The only true Zionists left are the frum ones who used their mesora of their very chushuva rabbonim to continue the idea that its a mitzvah to do yishuv EY. Its almost like the torah part of zionsim is the same as 100 years ago while the secular part fell away.