Avi K -“1. Which gedolim? You remind me of the pashkavillim wroiters who sign “harabbanim shelita”. Which rav? The erev rav? Harav im kulam?”
ALL the Gedolim esp. the Chofetz Chaim and all the others you mentioned! BTW, did you ever hear of the Satmar Rebbe and the Brisker Rov?
“2. Learn Tanach – unless your “gedolim” have banned it as Zionistic. David had an army. Learn Gemara. Just as Yoav needed David, David needed Yoav (Sanhedrin 49a)”
There is nothing wrong with a country having an army, but there is something wrong with Jews(?) making a country based on Kefira!
“3. I doubt very much that Rav Shach stood up just because he liked his grandson. He stood up davka when he was in uniform – he stood up for the uniform.”
Naarish -I just told you a story that an army guy told me -he had absolutely no more respect for him than any other Jew who came to him!
“4. Is it also assur to have dealings with the Medina in order to take or just to give?”
Just to give, but actually the Brisker Rov & probably the Satmar Rebbe held it’s also Ossur to take!
“5. Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach (I presume thaty ou have heard of him) used to go to Har Herzl to visit kivrei tzaddikim.”
Maybe he went to see Rav Kook’s Kever -I’m sure it wasn’t to see Teddy Hertzl!
“He was very machmir that one should violate Shabbat to make things easier for combat soldiers in wartime.”
So what? Are you trying to tell me if men have to listen to women sing it’s equal to doing things because of Sakana Nefoshos?
The only Sakana Nefoshos there is -the women will scream, kick and shoot at anyone who doesn’t want to listen to them!