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Be greatful for the ability to go to Israel, daven there, learn there. Have some hakaras hatov.
No, I am not grateful for this. It came about because of the death of six million Jews and the failure of the US and other countries to act properly before the event, as well as the desire of Europeans to be rid of their remaining Jews after the war.
Far too high a price to pay, considering that if the zionists had not agitated, we would have eventually been welcomed as protected and honored guests the way I was when I visited the kivrei tzaddikim in Morocco (and the way the foreign born rabbonim of Chabad and Otzar HaTorah were welcomed to reside there once the period of agitation and emigration ended and there was no more suspicion of rabbonim being “Zionist spies”).
However, we do not know how Hashem works and why this magefa of Zionism was able to take hold and ruin so many Jews spiritually and physically. The reason why the government cannot act is because it is based on falsehood. Hashem gave us 1967 because Jews were in danger; the government made a mess in 1973 and then the movement to surrender what Hashem gave the Jewish, not the “Israeli” but the Jewish, people began in earnest. Now we see where that leads.
We can only daven and learn in the hope that Hashem, who is shoimer petoim, will protect am Yisroel from the folly of the Zionists. (Again, the only replacement for the medine is malchus beis Dovid though if it could be dismantled in peace we would be far better off at this point).