vochindik-you must have this sermonette ready for writing- as you posted it seconds after my posting! I am not going to enter into an argument about the validity of different seforim (Vajoel Moshe is a halocho sefer???) but I will take issue with your assertion about the persecution of jews in previous centuries and your blind belief that one Godol(the Munkatcher) was right and others were wrong.
If you cannot see that the Holocaust was a game changer in everything,then there is no point in continuing the discussion. In the past two millenia, there was no other corresponding catastrophe since the churban habayis. Even the expulsion from Spain was on another level. If you do not accept this, then there is no point in a discussion.
As far as the Minchas Elazar, you can follow him,if you wish. I (and many others) do not. I can readily accept Rav Teichtal HY”D and his argument about the coming of Moshiach. As a matter of fact , his explanation is very logical!