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Most of those frum Zionists are armchair Zionists and a few American olim whose kids are the ones losing themselves in Kikar Krack because their parents made aliya with no concern as to their childrens’ needs.
The former religious Zionists in EY are disillusioned. Their new rally song is Reb Amram Bloy’s Hashem Hu Malkeinu (the one the Ku Klutz Karta desecrates. After Gush Katif, they became completely disgusted with the state and now are rejecting it.
Rav Kook, frankly, was very misguided, and those who follow him now realize that his starry eyed idealism stemmed not from Torah but from a misplaced belief in the value of the state and its founders – who were people that we would call baryoinim and oisvorfen today.