I thank Hakodosh Boruch Hu every day for the gift of renewing Jewish sovereignty in Eretz Yisroel.
I thank Him every day for beginning the process of the Geulah.
The “Tikva” of two thousand years described by the author of the anthem is the hope and bitachon of every Jew in the last 2000 years. It is the pashut meaning of “bshuv H’ Es shivas Tziyon.”
The Author also talks of the “Nefesh Yehudi” For those of you who are still using the brain cells Hashem gave you, it is hard to reconcile the idea of a nefesh with a conviction that the anthem, the state, and all connected with it are secular anti religious atheistic cossacks bent on your spiritual destruction. It simply defies logic and rational thought.
“Ulfa’atei Mizrach” is a conscious echo of R’ Yehuda Haleivi’s “Libi Bamizrach V’Ani B’sof Hamaarav”. Again, it is a strange thing to use the words, thought, and meaning written by a gadol of 800 years ago in a conscious display of secular anti religious zeal.
In fact, I will go further. This deliberate misinterpretation and misrepresentation is a corruption of reality. It is a fatuous lie, a club to beat those you don’t agree with over the head with. It is a dishonest tactic that shames its users. It demonstrates a departure from fact, logic, and rational discourse.
Even if you don’t share my perspective on Israel (which is fine, I don’t expect everyone to. Unlike some here, I actually believe that people can have differing opinions on matters of hashkafa without being labeled as krum, reform, apikorsim) there is no justification for falsehood.