DIN: This is my take on the WZO Elections:
Chareidie Askanim and their Torah leaders want to remain in Chutz Le'aaretz! Their hashkafa is that the Jews have to remain in Galut until Moshiach comes. They ignore historical facts on the ground that HKB"H orchestrated the greatest miracle in 2,000 years by establishing a vibrant State in 1948. A home where the majority of the Jews live now. The secular year 1948 is not a coincidence, the year that Avraham Aveenu was told by HKB"H that his children were going to receive a gift from Him, the Land of Israel was 1948, after creation!
In order to implement their farkumte hashkafa, they decided to call those who did everything to gather in the exiles ..."Koifrim" They then embedded this perverted idea into the minds and hearts of their offspring.
In fact Rav Teicthtal speaks about the hate in reference vis-à-vis the opposition of Rabbanim to building the State:
"Not only did they oppose this undertaking, but they caused the simple, frum Jews to despise the rebuilding of the land so much that if one of them began to speak or get enthused about it, they considered him repulsive and abominable. They all rebuke him, saying, "You are a Zionist, an abhorrence, and an abomination." Thus, they have truly caused the desirable Land to be despised and detested. The simple man who does not know enough Torah to decide on his own whether this is true or not, chastises those who rebuild the Land. He shouts, "You are a sinner and a Zionist," for he wants to be considered devout and pious. "
But suddenly they faced a threat to their hashkafa!
The State of Israel in less than a century, became a עיר ואם בישראל a haven for millions of Jews, a State where all Jews are welcome, despite it being in constant wars with enemies who surround her.
In fact the Torah Leaders of the "medina" set up political parties in the Knesset and joined the government.
One popular Chutzniker Gadol wrote that anyone, including Gedoilei Yisrael who set up parties in the Knesset and are supporters of Zionism are considered "koifrim", the Gedoilim in the State, such as Rav Shach, Rav Ovadia Yosef, Gerer and Belzer Rebbes, totally ignored anything he had to say and joined the Government of "koifrim"
The Chutznik Torah leaders panicked and came up with another idea to tell their brethren who did live in the State not to take any money from the "medina" this was to make sure that those Jews remain dependent on them.
But Hashem in His infinite wisdom had other plans and made sure that the "medina" allocated millions to Torah institutions, just this year alone 800 million Shekels, that's over $216 million, making the "medina" the largest contributor to Torah ever in the entire Jewish history!
Suddenly, they watched with amazement as all their ridiculous, outdated and irrelevant hashkafas were rapidly going down the proverbial drain!
So they got together and schemed and came up with another plan!
"Why not make the Jewish State totally secular, so that the frum chutznikers would never again make Aliyah and they would be able to point out like the Satmar Rebbe z"l shouted 60 years ago that a "Frum Jew would not be able to live in Eretz Yisrael."
The Answer WZO Elections! !!!!!!
They recruited Gedoilim in Eretz Yisrael like Rav Landau, who from Bnei-Brak called the elections in Beit Shemesh a "Milchemes Mitzvah" and they enlisted the American Slobodke R"Y Harav Hirsch, whose older brother became a chilonie, on board!
This was "mammesh" a bird that flew into their hands. if only they could get the naive Chutznikers not to vote in the WZO elections, the Reform and Israeli Leftist Organizations would inevitably win and they would turn the entire State,,secular!
This would be a "win win" situation, the State becomes entirely secular and Jews remain in Chutz Le'aaretz until another Hitler ym"s comes to round them up, c"v!
But at least they will have a State to run to, unlike the Jews pre WW2!
Below is a comment from someone on another blog!
In general, since the late 1800’s with the rise of Zionism, many of the Gedolim came out on the wrong side of major issues concerning the welfare of Klall Yisrael. The main 3 are: Zionism, the threat of Hitler Yemach Shmo (the Holocaust) and the plight of Soviet Jewry. Most Gedolim were against any cooperation with secular Zionism. Most did not heed the warnings of Jabotinsky and others to the danger of the rise of Nazism And many opposed the rallies and pressure against the Soviet regime for religious freedom and the right to leave Russia by the Jews caught behind the Iron Curtain. They were terribly wrong on all 3 of these issues. And, sadly, today we are still witnessing this negativity by the Gedolim who oppose, against their own betterment, as so eloquently presented by this letter writer, matters if great concern to Orthodoxy in Eretz Yisrael. It is a very sad indictment that even after more than 75 years after the establishment of Medinat Yisrael, these Gedolim do not really appreciate the need to be more positively involved in the affairs of the State and not just in their own institutions and Yeshivot. We are still bereft of true Torah leadership in the so-called Chareidi community.
