Kuvult:
“Unlike some others who still live in a bygone era and cannot deal with reality, he once told me “the state of Israel is a good thing, where would Jews have gone were there no State of Israel”.”
It is a chillul Hashem and bizayon of Rav Yaakov to conjure up statements he made over half a century ago before all the Zionist propaganda around their war in 1967 (and earlier ones) were known to be lies once the historical record was opened.
Most were unaware then that it was the wicked Zionists who both caused and contributed to the Holocaust. Were it not for the Zionists, there would not have been a Holocaust. Were it not for the Zionists, there would have been many more places to which Jews could have gone, because the Zionists had lobbied governments against accepting Jews into their countries because, as the Zionists stated then, during the Holocaust, “Rak biDam tihyeh lanu haAretz”. Therefore, there never would have been the concern of “where would Jews have gone”, if not for the wicked Zionists.
These facts are admitted by even the Zionists by now, who still maintain that Zionism is above all else, including Jewish lives, but this was not nearly as apparent back then.