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smerel
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>>>In fact, the Chazon Ish himself didn’t think the Zionist “State” would last more than 50 years at most

Wow. It’s been many years since I last heard anyone make that claim. (The claim used to be 40 years) Nowadays most people deny it and point out that there was never any actual verifiable source who claimed to have heard that from him . Those who knew him deny it being the type of thing he would have said. There a simple reason even anti-Zionists no longer claim the CI said it. Had the Chazon Ish really made such an off target prediction it would call his general assessment about the state of Israel into question.

If anything the Chazon Ish said that “Zionism” as the movement was in his time will not last more than 40 years into the state’s existence. There is no evidence that he said that either but at least it is true that in the late 1980s and certainly the late 1990s people were already saying that the Zionist movement of Mapam, Mapai, Makki, Herut etc no longer exists . When was the last time anyone heard from Hashomer Hatzeir? etc.