ROB, you’re comparing the Zionist reshaim with Ezra and Nechemiah, a Navi Hashem? You’re beyond reason and living in a fantasy world.
The solid opposition to Zionism WAS Halacha then and IS Halacha now, Zionist fantasies not withstanding.
BE”H, when Moshiach does come (may it be BB”A), that egel haZahav and malchus haRisha will be no more; it will definitely NOT be forever.
Avi K:
Evidently, 99% of the gedolim disagree with your presumption of halacha, and it is also clearly not safer for Jews in Eretz Yisrael than anywhere else. Start with the mandatory draft, the never knowing a day of peace in its mistaken existence, et al.
Rather, the Zionists convinced everyone to have this perverted anti-Torah belief that it’s worth ch”V dying for the land. As the secular Zionists who’ve abandoned the Torah don’t have much spirituality if any to live for, it’s understandable in a perverse way for them to do so. But it’s not Torah. It’s Anti-Torah. The Torah says VaChai BaHem, just for starters.
HaLeivi:
We don’t know who people would have lived under in Eretz Yisrael, but if not for the wicked Zionists, it would have been no worse than living in England, France or even Morocco and Yemen at the same time period *minus* Zionist provocations and the reactions that caused.
Zionism completely changed the way Arabs and the world view Jews, Zionism is responsible for massive amounts, R”L, of innocent Jewish dam haShafuch and they continue to be like the chazir that puts on a show but is really just lipstick on the same.