hakatan > Of course, the baryonim of today would be the Zionists.
You can see some comparison between non-rel Zs of yesteryear with baryonim, although not fully. For one difference, they did not go into a fight with a superpower burning their own supplies. For another, you’d like that – baryonim were not violating 3 shvuos, they were there already. This is worth a good discusssion, but it takes away from our core disagreement – about RZ that are mostly not like that. And I brought a counter-argument several times – all minorities in middle east suffered in last 100 years, was it possible to live peacefully there? I don’t think you answered that. This is some contrast with Roman Empire – they were brutal to those who rebelled as a preventive policy, but they were often benefitting those who submitted to them.