The video above is disseminated by Hidabroot, a kiruv (outreach) organization in Israel. It is a documentary that describes the history of Zionism. It is headed by Rav Zamir Cohen.
How was the State of Israel founded? Of course, with Hashem's permission. The return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel could have taken place in one of two ways, depending on their free will -- bountifully, under the best conditions, or chas v'shalom, negatively.
How was the State of Israel founded? Of course, with Hashem's permission. The return of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel could have taken place in one of two ways, depending on their free will -- bountifully, under the best conditions, or chas v'shalom, negatively.
For you shall not depart in haste or go in flight. For Hashem goes before you, and the G-d of Israel is the One Who gathers you together -- Yeshaya 52:12
For you shall depart in joy and be transported in peace. The mountains and hills shall burst forth in joyous song before you, and all the trees of the field will clap their hands -- Yeshaya 55:12
As history has shown us, the return of the Jewish people did not occur that way. This is how it occured:
That which you imagine will never take place, that which you say, "Let us be like the nations, like the families of the lands, to serve wood and stone ..." I swear as I live, says Hashem, the L-rd, that with a strong hand, an outsretched arm, and outpoured wrath I will rule over you .. I will take you out from the nations and gather you from the lands to which you have been dispersed, with a strong hand, an outstretched arm, and outpoured wrath -- Yechezkel 20:32-34
Indeed, the State of Israel was founded through Hertzl's idealogy, after a period of secularization lasting 150 years and a Holocaust that destroyed 6 million of us. Even after the return to the Land, pogroms by Arabs against 22,000 Jews in the Land. And since then, many more lives have been taken.
As the video reveals, Zionism changed from secular avodah zara to "religous" Zionism, pretending to equate itself to redemption. Anything with a Zionism label is not Judaism. Wake up! Jewry in the State of Israel is still in galus (exile), because Hashem hasn't yet redeemed the Jewish people. We still have a lot to do, in order to merit redemption. The revolutions in the Middle East are teaching us a lesson. We need a revolution of TESHUVA and cry our way back to Hakadosh Baruch Hu!
Source: The Ishmaelite Exile, by Rabbi Yechiel Weitzman
Additional Readings: False Prophets of Our Days, נביאי שקרים בימינו, The Erev Rav Among Us, ערב רב בקרבנו
