mdd, I’ll respect your assertion that “ein ze mikomah” regarding the 3 shvuos though I disagree with both that assertion and your implied position on the matter regarding “Religious Zionism”.
Regarding your comparing murderous Arab rock attacks in Israel vs not being able to wear a yarmulke in parts of Europe, I first of all don’t see what the purpose of the comparison is.
Besides that this comparison is pointless, in my humble opinion, it’s anyways almost no contest (Israel is far worse).
The ability to wear a yarmulke in the streets is almost worthless given the myriad security and other problems in Israel that are the bloody costs of Zionism.
As we discussed, it’s not “only” rock attacks that Israel has problems with, though those alone are far worse than having to wear a secular hat over the yarmulke as in parts of Europe. Israel also has a mandatory draft, constant battles against other types of terror, the potential for missile attacks that Israel cannot adequately defend against even with its anti-missile batteries, etc. Hashem Yishmor.
These and more do not apply to Europe, only to Israel.
(I find it pathetic that people even try to defend the utter disaster that is (secular) Zionism. If your theology (i.e “religious Zionism”) calls for the tens of thousands of Jewish human sacrifices that were needed for this A”Z, then I understand you are defending an A”Z that you were mislead into believing and I’ll also try to show you how you were mislead.
But when people try to defend secular Zionism by touting how you can dress like a Jew in the street in (parts of) Israel, as if according to the Jewish faith even a drop of Jewish blood may be spilled CH”V for that, and at the same time people ignore all of Zionism’s myriad problems and disastrous consequences to Israeli and world Jewry, Hashem Yishmor, I find the whole thing absurd.)