I’m looking at the teshuva now. He ignores the megilas ester and jumps straight to rabbi kook, who he refers to as “maran”. He also writes emotionally, bemechilas kovod toraso – this seems so far like a political writing, not a halachik one. For instance, he says that the shevuos don’t apply after the state was made….because the world is ok with jews coming to “their” land, and they see it as “natural” – has he ever heard what they say at the UN? They hated Israel from day 1….he also claims that tanach praises evil kings while also mentioning that they’re evil, that aveiros don’t counteract mitzvos, when amatzah saved the 10 shvatim from an enemy…the problem is that while the pasuk says he did evil in the eyes of Hashem, it doesn’t actually praise his saving of the shvatim…just that that’s what happened.
I don’t have time at the moment to go through the whole thing, but it’s honestly typical. Poskim are human. Unless they’re the gedolei olam, kedoshei elyon, people who live in a different dimension…people like the chazon ish, they are, on their level, influenced by the tides and events around them. Rav waldenburg was a big talmid chochom, but reading this teshuva just convinces me of the emotional motivation of these opinions, not that the opinion is valid.