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rebdoniel
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For Haredim to quote Rav Hirsch as a rayah against Zionism is ridiculous, because Rav Hirsch dealt with a different worldview and approach to Judaism than do the Haredim.

For Rav Hirsch, Zionism was ill-fitted not merely because of the reasons he gives in his siddur (i.e. that he believes only G-d can restore us to the land), but also due to his universalism and humanism. He saw Jewish nationalism as being in direct conflict to his own sense of loyalty to the Fatherland.