yserbius- “chachomim hzharu bedivreichem”.
To write that ‘the whole of ikvesei demeshichei is an invention by some useful idiots’ puts you perilously close to be an “apikorus” with very serious consequences.. See mishne “Kol yisroel” in Sanhedrin and the explanation what “Apikorus’ means. (mevazeh talmidei chachomim).There were , and are, plnety of Gedolim and Poskim – and not only the ones who lean towards Zionism- who consider that we are in the time of “ikvei demeshiche”.