Zionism allowed many Jews to flee the nazi’s Yemach Shemmam, and raise families in Israel, which many of these children and grandchildren are now Baalei Teshuva or at very least keep a Pessach seder, Kosher, marry Jews, and other Mitzvos.
Had they been killed, nothing.
had they gone to America, these grandchildren would be intermarried.
I know many survivor families in American where in fact the children of the survivor intermarried without even some conversion. Imagine the extra anguish.
I don’t see this as so black and white. Yes there is bad in Zionism but also there is good.
” Why? Because of the sholosh shvuos”
there is ample Gedolim who refute this point. The Avnei Nezer writes that this oath does not apply when the nations give Yisrael permission to return.
Rav Teichtal, in his work, “Em Habanim Smeicha,” offers another explanation. Although the Jews were sworn not to enter Eretz Yisrael forcefully, the nations of the world were also sworn not to persecute the Jews too much. Over the course of the exile, the Jews were severely persecuted by the gentiles. Because the gentiles violated their oath, the Jews were no longer bound by their oath.
The author of the “Hafla’ah” maintains that the oaths only apply to those who are in the exile of Bavel, and not in other lands.
R’ Chaim Vital explains that the oath only applied for 1000 years, not longer.
The Gra writes that the oath applies only to building the Beit Hamikdash, not to entering Eretz Yisrael.
Elsewhere in the Gemara there are other, conflicting, sources. Furthermore, the Gemara regarding the “Three Oaths” is aggada, and we do not decide halacha based on aggada.