Kozov, I was saying that someone who dishonestly misrepresents Hatikva as being without spiritual reference or value from Torah sources, and who represents it as a kfirahdik tool of atheistic Torah annihilators is being dishonest, and using an out and out lie to advance their agenda. Someone who has to resort to falsehood like that shames himself, not someone else.
As for your question about the early zionists believing E’Y is God given, My Great Great Grandfather who walked for over a year to get to Eretz Yisroel in the mid-late 19th century was motivated by that. He joined the Yishuv in Yerushalayim. His descendants grew up as Torah observant Jews who love eretz yisroel and medinat yisroel.
And really, did you never learn about the Chovevei Tzion movement?
R’ Shmuel Mohilever, who learned in Volozin, and was later the Rov of Bialystock, was its founder and first president. The majority of its original followers were frum Jews. It was the beginning of the modern Zionist movement. It wasn’t until 1893 that there was a significant differentiation between frum and not frum in the movement, and they still worked together after.