Evalemoshavlo – May they come because they want to be near their great Father
Agreed. That is the real reason, and the only reason. You don’t need to be Zionist to believe in that (or practice it למעשה).
Yankel Berel – He is using divrei mussar re hitbadlut me resha’im to be halacha lema’aseh mafkir damam shel yisrael. His thick skull cannot grasp the difference between those two totally different worlds.
Not living here makes it way easier for him to confuse those two concepts, and to somehow see everyone here as either ‘Zionist’ or ‘anti-Zionist’.
Square_Root – The anti-Zionist Chareidi Rabbis also opposed Jews moving to America.
An old red herring. Pre WWI, when it was easier to immigrate to the USA, the matzav in most parts of Jewish Europe wasn’t as bad. Post WWI there were already quotas and restrictions. Moving to Eretz Yisroel under the Turks and then under the White Paper policy was not poshut even if you wanted to. My Elter Zaydie moved to America with the blessing of Reb Boruch Gorlitzer who was strongly opposed to.Zionism… (And who, together with his brothers, did much to help the Yishuv in Eretz Yisroel also… History is complicated…)