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HaKatan, have you considered the following, regarding your “physical” perspective? About 25,000 have died as a result of wars and terrorist attacks in Israel (that counts deaths that occurred in the decades before the establishment of the Medinah as well).
But in Israel, the vast majority of Jews (probably at least 90%) marry other Jews and have halachically Jewish children. In America, the number is much lower, about 50%. This means that millions of Jews who would have existed in the US, if people had only married Jews, do not exist. This has been referred to as a “silent holocaust.”
If the millions of Jews in Israel had been living in the US or elsewhere, the overall intermarriage rate would have probably been similar. So the existence of Israel has been responsible for the birth of hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Jews who wouldn’t have existed otherwise. This more than makes up for the 25,000 who have died.
You really think the “shmad” and the prominence of secular Jews and ideology in the Medinah is so bad that it outweighs the existence of all those hundreds of thousands of Jewish neshamos that wouldn’t have existed without the Medina? Anyway, it’s not as if there’s not secular ideology here in golus. It’s not as if the US government financially supports charedi yeshivas and lifelong kollel learners.