TOI- If there is anyone who could be considered misguided (allow me to be polite) it is you and the people who espouse your views. If you truly think that ,with Arab sovereignity, we’d be having yeshivos, thriving cities and expanding Jwish presence, then you truly are hallucinating. Everywhere in the Middle East, minorities (not only Jews) are being killed, persecuted and exiled. Just check the headlines about Iran (Bahai, X-ians), Egypt (Copts), Syria (Sunni Muslims), Algeria (berbers), Turkey (secular Turks) and I would not trust an Arab to give me a copper penny. And, PLEASE, don’t come back with that hoary argument that, prior to israel, there was harmony and love with the Arabs. Not only is it false, this is a hundred years later and totally different circumstances.
As far as Zionism, no one is being vague. Please look at Rav Kook’s seforim and other Zionist minded Rabbonim and you might have a better idea of religious Zionism.