Again, I am not a historian or a posek, but Dehaan had one and only mission, which was to farshterr the nascent state.
I would not know whether the rules of ovid inish dina lnafshei, or ba bamachteres, or rodef, or mored bmalchus, would apply here. I doubt anybody can pasken on them without a pro- or anti- negiah. But just as a mashal, suppose you were shipwrecked on an island, and had enough material for one boat to get back to civilization. But the other guy with you on the island decides he wants to wreck your boat just after you finish building it. There is no pikuach nefesh, as you can happily eat coconuts ad meah vesrim shana. But you really want to get off the island back to your family, and this guy is bent on wrecking your boat. Is there any heter to take the law into your hands and kill the guy if he won’t desist. It is your only chance to get back to your family that you will ever have. So this is just a mashal, but obviously involves complicated ethical shailas of pikuach nefesh.
Jothar, whether the Zionists did right or wrong back then, your conclusion that this proves Zionism is incompatible with Torah is a bit problematical, considering your study was done using a sample population of one. Would it be fair to say that the Chareidim are incompatible with Torah because one mishugeneh in Beit Shemesh beat a 3 year old child unconscious with the mother’s permission, and ran away to South America.
A single incident is not indicative of a movement. Do Zionists routinely go around killing people on the street? If they even kill a potential terrorist, they are brought up on charges and subject to a long investigation before they can be cleared. There is taharas haneshek being practiced.
Kilobear, your complaints of the conduct of the Zionists following the ’67 war that they gave the har habayis over to the wakf, basically falls into the category of Zionists are bad because they are not Zionist enough. Like saying robbers are bad because they don’t rob enough. Isn’t that self contradictory? So you basically agree with the Zionist ideal of having a Jewish state. I would also have liked to see a more assertive stance by the govt. But maybe if all the chareidim had been mecahazek the govt then and stood with them and gave them a yasher koach and explained that they should have more bitachon that the RBSH will not let anything bad happen if they ignore the calls of the world to give back what they won, then the govt would have had more bravery. But because the chareidim are knocking the govt from the right and telling them they are illegitimate, and the world is knocking them from the left and telling them they have no legitimate rights to Yerushalayim and Yesha, they didn’t have enough self-confidence to hold on to it. Instead of blaming the govt, why not have all the charedim give them some Torah chizuk. It might go a long way.