Reply To: Why was the National Anthem or G-D Bless Ameirica not sung by Siyum Hashas?

Health- you named a long list of Gedolim and rabbonim- that you maintain -were against the medinah. Some are totally unknown (R”shaul broch?) and what you neglected to say is that the vast majority lived ,and died, a long time before the medinah was founded (Chofetz Chaim, Rogotshover(Rosen), R’Meir Simchah, R”chaim Soloveitchik, R.Chaim Ozer, Belzer rebbe, the Munkatcher-Shapiro) and we have no way of knowing what they would have said after the Holocaust and after the fact of the medinah. So, let us concentrate on those who lived when the actual medinah was founded. Many of those gedolim actually lived in Eretz ysroel (Chazon ish (karelitz) Rav Hutner, Rav Dushinsky) and others never came out against the medinah after the fact ( Rav Kotler, Rav Gifter, Rav Weismandel) so you are left with literally one person- R’joel teitelbaum, satmarer rebbe. He is the only one who, consistently, railed agaisnt the medinah. No one else did. Whether you think it is the geulah or not, the medinah is here and virtually everybody has accepted that. The old ideological battles are gone. The medinah is here, there are over six million jews living there, amongst them many chareidim, and our duty is to improve what we have. I could not care less whether you sing the Hatikvah-as long as you live in eretz yisroel and contribute to its welfare!