“הרב זילברמן זצ”ל אמר בזמנו על הפסק של ‘פיקוח נפש דוחה שטחים’, שהוא דן כאילו יהודי פרטי יש לו פיקוח נפש אם יגור בבית מסוים, שדנים אם במקרה כזה עדיף שיעזוב את המקום. הוא אמר שמי שדן כך את הסוגיה של החזרת שטחים על-ידי מדינת ישראל הוא אדם שאי אפשר לסמוך עליו בשום פסק בתורה.”
הערה: אני לא אומר כאן את דעתי.
הערה: לא מצאתי את דברי רש”י נדה שם כדבריו.
Someone sent me this:
I sometimes hear the anti-Zionist claim — e.g., by Rabbi* Yaakov Shapiro — that perhaps in the 50s and 60s the Israeli State was a source of Jewish pride and caused diaspora Jews to only marry Jews, because the State was quasi-Communist, enlightened, etc. (Not that his type opposed it any less for that!) But now with ascendant liberalism, leftism, anti-“Occupation” sentiment, and ethnonationalism regarded as an embarrassing relic, the Jewish state repels secular Jews from their Judaism, forcing them to choose between their present course and a Jewish identity mixed up with a backward and troubling chavinism\nationalism\Right wing\triumphalism\particularism\foreign state patriotism\colonialism\etc.
In other words, the Jews in Israel [the State be hanged] can do nothing right. If they are too goyish, that’s no good (as Vayoel Moshe says, better not to control the land at all if Avoda Zara will be left intact). But if Israeli Jews are too Jewish, that’s counterproductive, as well!
Just imagine what the anti-Zionists will say if the country really becomes Jewish! Like a cross between all the smeared and sneered States: Hungary, Russia, Islamic State, and Iran (but worse).
An interviewee by Rabbi Shapiro adds an interesting claim: He says the Jewish anti-Israel activists on college campuses tend to be those with the strongest sense of Jewish identity (not the weakest, as you might expect). How so? Because they all, all assimilated diaspora Jews oppose Israel’s treatment of the “Palestinians”, but only those who feel connected to Jewry even worry that Israel reflects badly on them! Wow.
*Not sure if this man should be given the title “rabbi” in light of the many rumors of immorality (there used to be more in the comments, now missing).