ujm: He hasn’t refuted anything I said. He also hasn’t refuted Simcha or Eval’s point either. I will give him credit for being excellent at firing off polemics laced with logical fallacies.
As for being Herzl/Ben-Gurion aligned, no, not really, but nice try with the incorrect description. I have expressed my position more than once on this forum. Viewing the state as a positive thing (along with saying certain tefillos on Halachik grounds, not philosophical grounds) and possibly being Zionist insofar as Shivas Tzion is concerned is not the same as Political Zionism and being a political Zionist. If I am a Zionist, it’s maybe so far as Rav Kook was. The fact that you cannot grasp any of this is as baffling as SJ’s demonstrably incorrect argument that Rambam was a literalist vis-a-vis Midrash and Aggada and required a miraculous Geula.