The “Rav HaGaon” considers the Hareidi Shita reasonable, and brings up the tired, ridiculous accusation about Zionism and the Holocaust. This thread is not about Zionism–but does he really wish to go there? Should we discuss the role of his anti-Zionist Hareidi Gdolim in discouraging Jews to leave Europe? Should we discuss the advice of the Zionist Rabbanim at the time?
There a a number of documented sources on this subject–although it is not a topic that is allowed to be discussed in Hareidi circles. However, we can discuss it here, if you wish.
And, if “Haav HaGaon” thinks that the Israeli society founded by the Zionists is “besides the point”, he should not have brought up the Zionist enterprise. That society, whether he approves of it or not, is trhe outcome of the Zionist movement. In that society, Torah learning, by Hareidim and nonHareidim, flourishes. The desert indeed blooms–in many ways.