Forget about Zionism. It was a political movement that is irrelevant nowadays. What we have is a matzav. While I’ve may disagree as to if the modern State was originally conceived in sin or as a miraculous redemption of our people after the horrors of the Shoah. אלו ואילו. It is irrelevant now. What we have now is a matzav that the majority of affiliated Jews live in Eretz HaKodesh and we need to make it work using the כלים the Aibishte gave us. Our חכמה, בינה, ודעת. We have to make it work because there is no plan B. We need parnassa, security, and for those who wish, to study Torah. In order to accomplish these goals we need to all work together. We need to help one another in the way they need the help. If my wife is stressing out with the kids, my offer to go to mikveh and daven an extra long Maariv is not the help she is looking for at this moment. We all need to defend our country. We all need to be able to work and support large families בכבוד.
As far as galus….it is a location not a mindset. I’m not a big Tanach person but I couldn’t find a place that galus meant anything but a place. Later, much later, in the גולה, the idea was shifted to a metaphysical. Either you are in Eretz HaKodesh or you are in galus. Unfortunately, for many that mindset holds back growth.
As far as Geula… It happens when it happens… I know this is controversial but that has been our experience. I’m sure there were those who challenged Moshe because it was 210 not 400. Since God controls the Geula, He can do it any way he pleases. Chutzpa to not accept the gift of geula. I’m sure there were those who challenged the geula in times of Ezra because those who left the galus were a bunch of intermarried amaratzim. No thank you, that is not how Yeshayu or Yirmiyahu fortold. We were exilied because of sin, how can redemption be by sinners? The majority stayed in Bavel.
There are volumes of chazal, rishonim and modern Rabbanim who wrote exactly how Mashiach will come and how it should be. They calculated exactly 400 years, but God gets to decide וחשב את הקץ. At each previous geula those accepted what was clearly in front of their eyes and those who couldn’t let the dissonance between what they believed the way geula should be to the reality of how it actually transpired.
I don’t know the r right answer, but I’m willing to place my faith in God that he can tinker with the rules and experience the Geula as He intends and not as others would portend from to do. The King makes the rules and his subjects follow. If the king of kings decides to end galus in 1948, He can. If he decides to push it off for another 2000 years, he can as well.
Your worldly calculations are not relevant at the beis din shall maala.
In conclusion: Galus is a physical space. Thinking like a גלותי can be a retarded mindset that limits growth of our communities and mosdos