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It is artzeinu, but that doesn’t mean “moledet” as described in zionist literature. We have lots of things; our mesorah, our beis hamikdash, our torah, our history – the land is meant to be ours as long as we deserve it and use it for its states purpose. But it is not a national homeland, because such a concept is non existent. we were born in midbar sinai, as chumash says openly, created as a nation by virtue of the Torah alone.
Eretz yisroel is of paramount importance in its opportunity to do mitzvos which only apply there.
I’m not taking away from that – I’m saying the term moledet was a nationalist import from non jewish sources, by people enamored by the European nationalism of the time…it was the , during the shift from kingdom and vassal state to nationalism that zionism was developed – as a direct result, copying and pasting it on to Judaism.