There is nothing I have to add to the words of mariner and Pashute Yid….”Ashrecho Yisroel” or more humurously, “Elementary, my dear watson”…
And as far as my children (and pashute Yid) who are black-hatters- actually, so am I… I wear a black hat (and more) on shabbos but I am still proud of my love for Eretz Yisroel and the medinah…And my son actually LIVES in Jerushulaim-unlike the critics who live in comfort in boro park , kiryas joel and others…
The real facts are as the above postings have described…and you will find countless of Yidden who wear shtreimlech’s, spodiks’s and Kapote’s who agree with the sentiments as described by mariner and Pashute Yid…
On a very charitable note, I will maintain that the critics just don’t get it. Eretz Yisroel is well past its “secular zionism’, which they attack and is well into its “traditional zionism’ phase.In due time ,it will turn into a “religious zionism” and ultimately into a “chareidi zionism”. As said earlier, “umole ho-oretz deoh”