I have been told by several people (one of them a close talmid of Rav Shach, zatzal, now a well known Rosh Yeshiva but I don’t want to mention his name without his permission) that Rav Shach, zatzal, said that l’shita he agreed with the Satmar Rav a hundred percent, just that he felt that l’maaseh it was impossible to follow it in the present time.
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Which, surprisingly is not far from a known quote of the Lubavitcher Rebbe ZYA regarding either Satmar, the real NK or both. The Rebbe said that if the kanoim were not out there doing what they did, he would have to do it (implying that this would jeopardize the work Chabad does with victims of the medine going back to accepting bochurim from the infamous maabarot into Tomchei Tmimim at the time of the mass aliya from Teiman and Morocco and thereby saving them from the forced secularization at the hands of none other than Yossi Sarid’s father OLBM at the behest of Mapai). When Torah askonim of any community are dealing with the medine, they are doing so to save Jews and to preserve Torah uMitzvos in E”Y; they are NOT recognizing that the medine has legitimacy or chas vesholom holiness, rather that it happens to control E”Y in these dark days of golus and that not one Jew can be left behind.
The Ku Klutz Kartel are wrong in that they:
1) Demonstrate against the medine along with terror supporters, in ways that encourage anti-Semites including dangerous ones. The Satmar Rov (Reb Yoilish ZYA) pointed out that for non-Jews, being against the medine is being against Jews. When we protest, it is one thing to protest anti-Torah policies and another thing to call for the destruction of the medine and claiming it should be replaced with an Arab state. The successor to the memsheles zadoin is NOT HAMAS or FATAH chas vesholom. It is malchus beis Dovid, and if dealing with the corrupt medine brings one Jew one step closer to Torah then it has to be done – but by professional askonim who do not get swayed or corrupted themselves. (I know that this is not always the case and that is why the Satmar shita of no engagement whatsoever is very admirable but not always practical or recommended for everyone).
2) Engage in dialogue with and support for our mortal enemies, enabling themselves to be used by same.