will hill, on ONE item you are right. The rebbe Rashab (reb sholom ber)who is quoted did die in 1920. So, at least you got one thing right.
To say that the chofetz chaim was ‘an anti-zionist” is redundant. Even I admit that most of the European gedolim were against zionism in the early part of the twentieth century. So what? A couple of small things happened after those early years, like the Holocaust, the establishment of Israel, the Six-day War, the resurgence IN ISRAEL of the chassidische courts and the litvishe yeshivas…all of that and more.
You and your colleagues keep on harping on an old theme- anti-zionism- that is totally “oisgesphielt”. It is not relevant anymore! My belief in the medinah may differ from the gerrer’s chossdi belief in the medinah. BUT BOTH of us are thankful for our homeland, BOTH of us accpet its legitimacy today and BOTH of us wil lwork to make it a continuing success.
Sadly, you and your colleagues in the US don’t seem to grasp the reality of Eretz Yisrole and of its “nitzhchyus”.