Toi- you may be right in some ways ,that both sides tend to skew comments to their advantage. R” Zvi Hirsch Kalisher,the Netziv and many others did not plan or know political Zionism and it would be pure conjecture to speculate what they would have done. I am not even sure whether Rav Kook wrote about political Zionism,although he clearly gave the land of Israel much more prominence than other Gedolim of his era. However, accepting all that, there is little to show that political Zionism is “shmad” or whatever evil the anti-Zionists claim. I have made enough search now to see that the basis of all anti-Zionism derives from the gemoro in Kesubos (sholsh shevuos) and that it has no applicability today, based on many meforshim, rishonim and acharonim.
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