>>>wtsp: so since we have to give thanks to Hashem for the victories that He gave to the Israeli army, are you in favor of saying Hallel on Yom Ha�atzmaut and Yom Yerushalaim, as many religious Zionists do?
The question wasn’t asked to me but since it wasn’t answered I will. Saying Hallel needs specific conditions for it to be said. The religous Zionists beleive that those conditions were met on those days. Most other frum people do not. Thanking Hashem when the conditions for saying Hallel have not been met is something that should be every day. Or at least when one sees his hasgacha.
I don’t want to post further on this thread because it does not bring out good in people to continue on these type of “they are so terrible-we hate them” type of threads. I will say that it is going backwards. If the starting point was when do we thank Hashem, did Chazal ever praise Resoyim for their military valor on behalf of Klall Yisroel in a war they should not have gotten involved in (the answer to that is yes) and then applying it to the current situation (whatever your view on Zionism is) things would be more clear.