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HaKatan, are you bringing up that canard about the three oaths again? I have already debunked them here several times.
1. Reish Lakish said the opposite *Yoma 9b).
2, Rav Chaim Vital said (Intro. to Sefer Etz Chaim 8) that they were only for 1,000 years.
3. Rambam does not pasken them in Mishna Torah. Neither do any of the Rishonim, Shulchan Aruchm Rema, and Achronim. Ramban (Sefer haMitzvot, Mitzvot that Rambam “forgot” 4) says that it is an obligation in our time to conquer Eretz Yisrael.
4. The other nations broke their vow several times (Crusades, Chmielnitzki massacres, pogroms, Holocaust). Thus, the deal is off.,
5. Rav Meir Simcha said that the San Remo Convention revoked them as it is no longer “rebellion”.
6. Rav Solovichik said (Kol Dodi Dofek) that Hashem has called.
