somejew > “even if these men were wholehearted with Hashem and His Torah , and even if there were reason to think they could achieve their goal, we are forbidden to listen to them in this matter: to bring about our redemption through our own power.” … The Rebbe list his sources and explains its application to the situation.
I agree that this part of his argument stands better than others. Still, are you not shocked by the number of assumptions in this letter that turned out different? Does it not make you think that the issue is complicated and you need to be careful with conclusions?
But, strictly speaking about current matzav, as others are calling here – we are not deciding now whether to go against Arab armies into EY. We currently have several millions of Jews in EY, including multitudes of religious ones, yeshivos and chesed organizations all over the place – are 3 shevuos saying anything about this? any classical commentator discussing this b’dieved situation? Should we apologize and return to the shtetlach in Ukraine? Sephardim going back to Syria and Morocco?