When modern political Zionism emerged around the turn of the twentieth century, most Orthodox Jews opposed it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
From its earliest days in the nineteenth century, and until the Holocaust, the Orthodox rabbinate in eastern Europe was not enthusiastic about the Zionist movement, which at the time was led by irreligious Jews.
Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.
For those who share my view that the Jews as a people have a right to self-determination, Zionism as a national movement of the Jewish people is the embodiment of this very right, which its opponents want to deny.
Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.
Without a Jewish state, the iron truth of history is that the Jewish people sooner or later become even more vulnerable to the next wave of anti-Semitism.
I was not raised a Zionist, but a socialist, as were most Jews before the Holocaust.
Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.
When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.
Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a resolution, religion got sucked into the escalating cycle of violence and became part of the problem.
Given the events of even the 19th century, Zionism was inevitable. Given the events of the 20th century, Israel was inevitable.