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And I want to add that if you go to the post on American olim, you can see how army service is handled at what once was a very proudly religious Zionist yishuv. Now everyone is trying to shorten or avoid service.
Just as Reb Amram Bloy ZYA is looking down from Gan Eden on the conversion of the theater which he protested for chilul Shabbos becoming a Satmar moisad and/or housing development, so, too are the gedoilim who resisted and continue to resist Zionism seeing that they were right.
There is one challenge though – and that is for us to make sure that victims of Zionism become Torah Jews rather than ending up totally devoid of any Jewish identity. Many former Israelis do find Torah abroad, and of course there is a wave of return in EY, but it is just a fraction of what could be.
If they become totally devoid of Jewish identity, then the Zionists have had their victory because they wanted us to become a nation among all others. We can’t let that happen!