assurnet: you are propagating many untruths. You take as a given that what my have happened to some happened to all. I am not carrying the water for the early Zionists but you paint everyone with the same brush-a false brush. And to include the Satmarer rebbe zz’l as one who saved Sefardi Jewry is a joke! At least we know that the Lubavticher rebbe zz’l reached out to sefardim since the beginning and you can see the fruit of that in France and Israel today, where Lubavitchers are mainly sefardim. How many Sefardim are Satmarer chassidim??
But, above all, as I said forever, history is not static, it is dynamic. What may have happened in 1948 does not exist today. What may have been a valid “shittah” a hundred years ago is irrelevant today.