somejewiknow said – “You seem to be fully unaware that the heresy called �Religious Zionism� that exists today is even worse and dangerous to Jews than secular zionism at its worst.”
Hold your horses Reb Yid… I know all about ‘Religious Zionism’, (I’m not sure you do…), and there is a very wide range of people who go by that name. Some of them are almost Chilonim in their behavior and hashkafa (Bennett and friends come to mind), and some of them are fine ehrlicher Yidden and ????? ???, who also happen to believe in settling the Land as part of their Avodah… I don’t think that the lady from the Shomron who nebech was murdered last week and her husband could seriously be seen as “even worse and dangerous to Jews than secular zionism at its worst”. You do know what ‘secular Zionism at its worst’ did, do you? (??? of Sephardim, Yaldei Tehran, collaborating with the Holocaust, political murder, etc.)
To be clear, I don’t agree with any kind of Zionism ?????, but I don’t automatically write off Yidden who do. But it is easier for you to feel good about yourself that ‘at least I’m NOT a Zionist’, especially if you anyway live in America… It’s equally easy for MO to feel good about themselves that ‘at least I AM a Zionist’, especially if they anyway live in America…
My point was that today it is rapidly becoming no longer possible to be both Modern and Orthodox, regardless of your position on Zionism.