@ HaKatan
Rav Saadiah Gaon established the Torah principle that the Jews are a people only through the Torah and not a nation like all others. We literally just read about this yesterday”
This statement is self contradictory. Was it established by R’ Saadiah or is it clear in the Torah itself? Please clarify.
As an aside, I don’t know a single religious zionist who is of the opinion that the Jewish nation is “a nation like all others”
Also, one would have to be a very creative individual to find a way to understand the Kuzari, Ramban, and Maharal in a way that trivializes the importance of Jewish Nationhood and Eretz Yisroel. I’m talking here even before the coming of Moshiach.