Well, I see that my postings have elicited a rather elaborate reply from (mainly)ymb. A couple of things: I have no desire-nor will I- re-open the debate about kastner and “the train”. Neither of us were there so we have no idea what Kastner did or did not do. The only fact we know is that 1700 jews were saved (amongst them many chareidim). As far Eichmann is concerned, he is burning in hell for all eternity but even ‘reshoim’receive ‘sechar’ for their good deeds and so maybe this is why he lived for another 17 years. BTW-Isrel was not a country when most of the Nazis were executed by the allies.
As far as Eretz Yisroel- you may have your opinion about whether one can have a ‘medinah’ or not. The facts are that over six million jews live in israel now, the yeshivos are thriving and yiddishkeit is gaining every day. This would never have been possible under Arab rule- we would have been either killed or expelled- you want proof? look at Iran, Egypt, Saudia Arabia ,Afghanistan and other Arab countries where all other religions are suppressed and persecuted- and this has nothing to do with Zionism. HKBH saw that the Moslems would become such a radical people that it would have impacted our lives as Jews even in Eretz Ysroel (as it dsid in Spain, England, France and other countries in our history)and made it possible for us to regain our sovereignity to protect all Jews living in Eretz Yisroel and all the “mekomos hakedoshim”- that would have been destroyed by the Arabs (see Afghanistan, Egypt and saudia Arabia).
No one could have foreseen in the early days of the twentieth century what would happen later-except for HKBH and He acted accordingly- giving us the opportunity to return to our homeland and exercising sovereignity over it- ‘ule hachayos lochem lifleito gedolah (bereishis 45-8)”.
Facts can be inconvenient but the facts are there for all to see.