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Health,
I am no ????? in the modern sense of the word (people to whom I like to refer as neo-Zionists). I am a Chareidi just like you. I just don’t like when people blindly feel a need to be “anti” to the point of sounding ludicrous.
Do I celebrate Yom Yerushalayim? No.
Do I think that it is proper to celebrate it? Not as a ??? ???.
Do I have a problem with people who celebrate it? Not any more than anyone who wants to celebrate a secular holiday. Unless of course they violate halacha (as it is generally understood by ??? ??????), such as saying ??? with a ????.
Do I think that what happened in 1967 was good for ??? ????? and a ??? from Hashem for which we have to thank Him? Absolutely!
You mentioned that we are still in ????. Of course you are right…I hate when ?????? refer to ??? ???? as ????, as if to say that Israel is not. You mentioned the disgrace that ???? still have unfettered access to ?? ????. That is true. But what does that have to do with thanking Hashem for other ????? he did?
As far as davening at the Kosel before 1948, that is true. They also had a ??? ????? before it was destroyed. What’s your point? When Hashem rebuilds the ??? ????? (may it be ????? ??????) will you wave it off, saying “no big deal, Hashem, we used to have one too” ??!! The fact is that after 1948 we were not able to, and if not for the ????? of 1967, we would not be able to daven there. Thank You Hashem for what happened in 1967!
And regard to the ??? of ??? ????? ???????? and rebuilding ?????? ???????, both are ???? in ????? ??????? and therefore only apply to areas which were within the wall of ??????? at the time of ??? ???. The vast majority of that is within the current Old City, and even the part that isn’t was for the most part inaccessible to yidden before 1967. (The only ???? in which areas of ??????? outside the walls of ??? ??? still have the same status as ??????? proper is Purim, which is ???? in being ???? ????? and not being “inside” it.)