Herzl’s first remedy to solve the Anti-Semitism problem was mass conversion to Christianity. Then came the Uganda plan. Israel was #3. Neither Herzl nor Ben Gurion viewed the state as having any holiness. This isn’t to say that Israel is a maaseh satan. Clearly there is something divine going on here, and the Maharal (Gevuros Hashem ch. 18) seems to confirm it. But the same Mahara”l says that there has to be a physical country, devoid of spirituality, before the spiritual state can blossom from it. The current regime is no different from the kindom of Alexander Janneus (Yannai Hamelech). Jews lived in Israel then, but they respected their gedolim more than him. They also didn’t call Yannai’s kingdom Reishis Tzemichas.
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