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Regarding the Chevron massacre, I don’t know why you thought I legitimized it. Of course the savages had no right to murder any Jews. But these are Pereh Adam and I previously quoted Rabbi Baruch Kaplan who laid the blame for that massacre on the Zionists, including “religious Zionists” for their foolish provocations of these beasts.
We discussed the nevuah before; the land being again fruitful due to Jewish work has nothing to do with Zionism which is just as treif as it always was.
There was an article recently about those farmers paid by Rothschild. They were frum people who came to work the land with no political motives like Zionism. Their overseers, incidentally, tried to starve them rather than allow them to keep shemita, and lied about them to Rothschild.
Again, Zionism and political rulership have nothing to do with any of that. The Brisker Rov came to Mandatory Palestine for his own valid reasons despite Zionism, as did many others. Nobody said there is anything wrong with that.
With all due respect, there are (at least) two problems with your “frum” “rationalism” regarding Zionism and Israel:
a) it is not rational
b) it is not frum (i.e. against the Torah)
Zionism is severely forbidden by the Torah due to the oaths and its shmad, for starters. You choose to ignore this, likely because:
a) Having a Jewish government gives you (100% goyish) pride (despite that we are still in galus and expressly forbidden from having any rulership in E”Y)
b) You also think it’s better to have “control” of the Kosel even though that control is forbidden (see above point) and came at a cost of even more lives, Hashem yiracheim.
c) You refuse to consider the possibility that “Israel survives” because there are so many Jews there and it might take a greater neis to save those Jews if Israel were to not survive; so, therefore, Israel’s survival does not indicate anything about Zionism.
Again, not very rational and certainly not frum.
And, again, Zionists have no answers.