HaKatan said – “After 2,000 years of galus, your children have been battered by these wicked Zionists for over a century, who have now intentionally destroyed/shmaded at least three generations of Jews, numbering in the millions, not to mention the physical destruction these wicked heretics caused during the Holocaust”
To a large extent true. But those guys are long since dead. The present generation of ערב רב no longer believes in Zionism. In fact, they despise Religious Zionists, and some of them are more critical of the Army than any sane Chareidi. A good case could be made that Yair Golan and some of his buddies are genuine Erev Rav material, ditto the AG, most of the Bagatz, and many members of the Israeli ‘MSM’. None of those people are ‘Zionists’ in the classical sense, and some are openly anti-Zionist. I don’t even think YOU would be so crazy as to claim IDF soldiers kill babies for fun, but he did.
For those unfamiliar with the concept, the ספרים הקדושים, going back long before Zionism (and Reform/Haskalah/etc.) started, refer to the idea that the ערב רב from חומש still exist (at least on the conceptual/spiritual level, not necessarily biological descendants) as the רשעים מסיתים ומדיחים in each generation, and that they will be particularly active in the תקופה of אחרית הימים before Moshiach comes. The Vilna Gaon in ספר אבן שלמה describes five different categories of Erev Rav, and how to identify them… Some of the descriptions are eerily familiar. For example, one of the signs is people who are stingy to the point of cruelty towards worthy עניים, particularly תלמידי חכמים, but they gladly give generously to גויים and רשעים. (Any connection with the Supreme Court’s position WRT, let’s say, daycare for Chareidi toddlers on one hand, versus ‘humanitarian aid’ for Hamas on the other, is the responsibility of the reader…)
To help you understand, since you seem to be confused – the VAST MAJORITY of Israelis are מאמינים MUCH MORE than secular Jews in America (for example). More than 50% of the Jewish population here are ספרדים, who were and are close to אמונה and tradition, and almost NEVER ‘anti’. Even among the secular אשכנזים, there are far more who are at least ‘sympatish’ than you think. A Yiddishe Neshoma is a powerful thing, don’t underestimate it…
That being said, there was and is a very vocal minority, who may very well be connected ברוחניות to the aforementioned ‘Erev Rav’, who constantly agitate against Yiddishkeit, in favor of כל תועבות שבעולם, and for מחלוקת and hate between the different groups of Yidden who live here. They used to do this in the name of Zionism and Socialism, but those ideas went out of style. Now they just ape the ‘Progressive’ דור המבול culture and ideology (mostly) coming out of America. In one of their latest spins, they named their preferred political party the ‘Democrats’… As if that’s what we need here…
I have more important things to do with my time than to explain to you all of the intricacies of what goes on in ארץ ישראל today, and who’s on first and who’s in left field… The bottom line is – the majority of Yidden here are much closer to Yiddishkeit than you think. Many of them are descendants of the VICTIMS of the old Zionists (i.e. ספרדים and child Holocaust survivors who were taken from Yiddishkeit by force, as is well documented.) Yelling and screaming about what happened decades ago is not what will be מקרב them. If you are serious about fighting the after-effects of the old Zionists, and the current generation of ‘Erev Rav’ wannabes, IMHO the best way to do so is to be מקרב Yidden, or to help those who do.
Just a little anecdote. Shortly after the terrible שמחת תורה pogrom last year, I was in a Seforim/Judaica store near where I live (in an area with a mixed population). Someone came to buy a pair of ציצית. The seller told him that he’s out of tzitzis, and so are all of the tzitzis producers IN ALL OF ISRAEL, because someone started a campaign to convince soldiers going in to Gaza to take tzitzis to wear as a זכות, and it became so popular that ALL THE MANUFACTURERS IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY couldn’t keep up… You may recall the pictures on this site of Yeshiva Bochurim tying tzitzis for soldiers last year. It took several weeks until the stores could be restocked…