charliehall -“In another thread I pointed out at least three gedolim who disagreed with that statement: Rabbi Shlomo Goren z’tz’l, Rabbi Shaul Yisraeli z’tz’l, and Rabbi Shlomo Aviner shlita. There are probably others as well.”
And there are many more Gedolim who disagree with this philosophy.
“In any case, without the IDF, there would likely be no Jews in Eretz Yisrael or anywhere else in the Middle East today, as the Arab rodfim would run all over us and kill us all.”
This might be true nowadays, but they wouldn’t have needed an army if they didn’t create a Medina.
It’s like the arsonists who say -you see we need the FD, but without the arsonists who says you’d have needed the FD in the first place?