Joseph, dude,
1. “For hundreds of years prior to Zionism (note: prior to Zionism – not prior to Israel) there were not nearly as many as Jews killed in Palestine”. What about the Crusades, Chmielnitzki massacres, blood libels and pogroms? The numbers you cite are nothing compared to the dead and injured in those attacks.
2. Again, you are blaming the victim (not that you are alone – someone wrote a book blaming the Boston Marathon bombing on the difficulties immigrants have in America). According to your logic we should all assimilate. If there will be no Jews no Jews will be killed. In fact, there will be no anti-Semitism although some other scapegoat will surely be found.
3. Almost nobody held like the Brisker Rav. In fact, the head of Agudat Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael, Rav. Y.Y. Levin signed the Declaration of Independence.
4. In “Em HaBanim Semeicha Rav Teichtal brings down that the Gra (quoted by his talmid Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, in “Kol HaTor”) said that just before the time of Mashiach the sin of the spies will infect some who hold on to the Tora. Rav Kook was a bit gentler. He said that anti-Zionism came from a misconception of Judaism. Unfortunately, many accepted this misconception and as a result turned their backs on Judaism.