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Yes, Squeak is correct.
There are a few true Religious Zionist believers, who are well meaning but misled (and not guilty of anything other than deluding themselves so long as they do not try to convert others to their delusions).
Secular Zionism, however, is dead on left and right (which are now interchangeable).
Now, the ideology is post-Zionism, a vapid, valueless, confused non-ideology that reminds me quite a bit of Obama’s babble. No substance, no real plans, just go with the flow of the rest of the world and stop trying to be special in any way.
But the problem is that the end product of Zionism was supposed to be post-Zionism in which, indeed, Israel was to become just another nation instead of am levadoi tishkon and am segula. That is why religious Zionism is a delusion. You cannot make a cake that calls for two cups of sugar with one cup of sugar and one of lye. The lye of Zionism wins out in the end, because caustic lye renders the whole cake inedible and dangerous. That is why I am not a big fan of the charedi parties either; they are just trying to get a bigger piece of the same contaminated cake rather than pulling bnei Torah away from it.
This is not what anyone wanted to happen, but the moment the first teacher in the maabara cut off the first pair of payot on a Teimani child, it was the end for the medine. Now the only question is how to save the Jews living there from continued physical and spiritual destruction.