well, zalman, you have posted a long posting with, ostensibly, comments by past gedolim on Zionists and- at time, on Eretz Yisroel. I suspect it is a pamphlet of the despicable neturei karta, who could not care less if six mllion jews died again but I prefer to address the quotations themselves.
FIRST, most of these quotes (except maybe reb Elchonon and Rav Hutner) are of the “once said” kind. Well, this is totally misleading because “once said” means nothing. There is no way of checking its accuracy, there is no way of knowing its context so, in truth , I could totally ignore it. I ABSOLUTELY do NOT believe, for one moment, that the Chofetz Chaim EVER said what you quote. I also do not believe many of the other quotes. In addition, many of the quotes are from people (Rav Hirsch, Reb Sholom Dov Scheersohn, Reb Shmhel Diskin) who died years BEFORE Zionism even existed.
You quote Rav Brach from Kasho, who is surprised at the Agudah! mind you,who are telling people to go live in Israel. Well, those people survived the war BECAUSE they listened to their Rabbonim.
In short, you have chosen some very selective quotes from the distant past that cannot be checked and many are fully taken out of context.
The irony of your pamphlet is that your quote from Rev Elchonon (in writing ,I imagine) about the “medinah’ bringing the Redemption CLOSER is EXACTLY what the Religious Zionists have been saying for years (based on a Rambam) that, regardless of who brought us back to Eretz Yisroel, it is the “Jad Hashem” that did it, to bring us closer to the geulah. Yout quote actually PROVES our point!
Rav Hutner zz’l had his own view about the Holocaust but he went to LIVE in Eretz ysroel in the the 1970’s and his son-in-law has a thriving yeshivah in Har Nof. I highly doubt that he ever would acquiesce to the evil statements of today’s neturei karta, who prefer Arab rule to what we have today.
Lastly, you have used some very selective and doubtful quotes while totally ignoring the huge amount of writings from Gedolim ,ranging from the early Rishonim till today,who advocated “alyah” (yes, alyah) and the actual establishment of a homeland.
But then, you could not care less about anyone who does not agree to your warped shittah. Well, as I said previously, continue in your way and eat your heart out at the success of our “treife medinah” and grind your teeth at seeing so much Torah floursh in the ‘evil medinah”