I think that many of the more strident views that have been posted, tend to be posted by people who forget that the rabbonim whom they quote were not necessarily issuing piskei halacha on the subject of Medinat Yisroel. It is one thing to quote Rav Hutner, or some other rov when they are expressing what amounts to their personal opinion, regarding the government of Israel. It is quite another to insist that these opinions which are being expressed = a p’sak. Did any of the rabbonim say one is not permitted to go back to E”Y? If so, then the people who followed that rov should by all means refrain from returning to E”Y. But the truth is, there has always been a continuous Jewish presence in E”Y even throughout the goluyos, and it would be irresponsible for a rov to take it upon himself to decide that this cannot be. If Hashem truly did not want the medina to stand, it wouldn’t. The fact that miracle after miracle has occurred and we Jews have been zocheh to see those miracles in our time, should be sufficient proof to even diehard anti-Zionists that maybe Hashem sees things differently than they do, kivyachol. The Neturei Karta think they are tzadikim, when the chillulei Hashem that they commit in their misguided belief that they are earning Olam Haba, go beyond the pale. I will not demean myself by calling them what they deserve to be called, for aligning themselves in a public way with our worst enemies. There is a din v’cheshbon, and after 120 years none of escapes it.
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