oy….. health is turning hinself into a pretzel, trying to justify some of his outrageous statements. Did health REALLY write that there is no mitzvah of “yishuv ho-oretz’ because there is a jewish medina there? His pretzel-like answer does not answer this. The fact is- FACT- that the Rishonim who hold that “yishuv ho-oretz” is a mitzvah d’oraisa (Ramban most prominently) would endorse today’s yishuv enthusiastically. Come to think of it, talmidie habaal shem tov ANd talmidei Hagro ,both, made alyah in dorves these past two and a half centuries.
As has been said ad nauseum, now that there is a medinah ,it would be absolutely outrageous to wish for its destruction. This is like asking for a third churban- chas vechollilo, with all its catastrophic results for six million jews. Time to shelve those pamphlets and work at making this medinah better and more yiddish.