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To put things in post war perspective. Aguda had a huge spectrum. There were sone who were totally pro Zionism but were anti secular and opposed Israel only because of its secular nature . They even once held that you should fight in the IDF and be happy there is a state yet oppose the secular aspect. Others held don’t join the idfakd we are opposed to the statehood yet since we have no choice cooperate for the better cause. Then others were somewhat in the middle, they did join and support the IDF but didn’t oppose the state or the idea of it. They kind of tacitly supported it via raising flags and inviting its secular members to speak. That’s where most of the yeshiva world was. So punivitch chevron and the Mir held that as did most of the USA . Basically proud that there is a state but unhappy about it being secular.However basically cooperative unless it was a direct edict like gyuis bnos. Then there was briska rav who didn’t have a yeshiva and just gave shuir to10-15 bochrim in his dinning room . He was totally opposed but a minority .
That’s still very different than REITs who was mizrachi..But there were holy Jews on the mizrachi side too. And it’s really a shikul hadas who you hold like
