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DaMoshe:
Perfidy is not a history book, but history books make it clear that the Zionists both caused and contributed to the Holocaust.
Regarding “thick skull”, it is the “Modern Orthodox” and “Religious Zionists” that seem to have this issue.
Rav Elchonon Wasserman wrote explicitly, as did others, that both “religious” Zionism and vanilla Zionism are idolatry. But the former also mix Torah into that.
You asserted, with zero basis in facts and reality, that:
“As for the Six Day War, the fact that R’ Yaakov said Hallel Hagadol means that he recognized it as a good thing.”
If one recites the gomel blessing for having his life saved, for example, that doesn’t mean that he’s happy that he went through the danger that he did, only that he’s happy that his life was saved. Same thing with the Zionists. Yes, it’s certainly a good thing that the savages didn’t kill more Jews there but, no, that doesn’t make the Zionists’ wars inherently good. They are inherently bad, and never would have happened had the wicked Zionists not invaded the holy land against the wishes of the Jews (and liHavdil gentiles) over a century ago (and the Zionists then caused the Holocaust and numerous other problems).
The Gerrer Rebbe did indeed write that about Rabbi Kook. But since you’ve likely never opened up a sefer of the Satmar Rav, and therefore have no idea of what he actually holds other than the memes you learned in MO-land, you probably should refrain from spouting things against him, especially as those are untrue.