The Rosh Yeshiva of Chadera once spoke to the Chazon Ish about a certain problem which he thought would cause him persecution and asked, “What can we do, now they have kings and officers (the upper hand)?” The Chazon Ish answered him: “Don’t even use this expression again. The only difference is that before this, the secularists fought us with pens and now they do so with rifles.” (Reb Yaakov Galinsky)
The only actual difference with the formation of the Zionists State is, that before this they were hoodlums without arms, and now the hoodlums have arms. (Reb A. Y. Weintraub)
From Torah True Jews, here.