What an utter rubbish is the first post of this thread.
There are about 15 million Jews all over the world and you brought only couple of names!
Ovadia Yosef, the former Israeli chief Rabbi vote for the Israeli elections:
First of all the land of Israel belongs to the nation if Israel (the name Jews is because the Romans called in that name to the Israelis from the Judah tribe because 2700 years ago the Assyrians exiled the 10 tribes and those 10 tribes assimilated with the gentiles and lost their Torah and became Gentiles so that the children of Israel of today and in the last 2000 years are mainly from the tribe of Judah).
This is the land that God entered us when he took us from the slavery in ancient Egypt and commanded us to live in it, settle down in it and to live as a kingdom of priest in it.
It's true that God warned us that if we will not follow the commandments then the holy land will vomit us from herself but as long as Jews are living in the land of Israel and follow the commandments of the Torah and the 10 commandments then they got all the rights to live in it.
This is the reason why we had 2 main exiles and in both of them the temple of God was destroyed. Although the Romans deported us in 70 A.D, there were Jews who didn't go to the exile and stayed in Israel.
Jews can (and commanded) to live in the land of Israel as long as they follow the commandments of the Torah.
There is no prohibition to Jews to live in the land of Israel.
The Orthodox Jews do believe in the recreation of the state of Israel.
There is a very
small group within the Orthodox group in the name of Neturei Karta which believe that the state of Israel is not to religious for them to live in and this is the reason why they don't live in Israel (except couple of hundreds of them who are living in the neighbourhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem).
They represent only themselves. They were many of them before the ww2 who didn't want to go to Israel and because of that they finished their lives in the gas chambers. And they also deal with anti semitism in America from hate groups.
They are not saying that there is a say in the Torah/Tanach that Isreal should not be created until the Messiah comes cause there
isn't such a say at all!!
what there is is a prophecy about the Messiah who will do 3 things:
1. Built the third temple of God in Jerusalem.
2. Will bring the rest of the Jews who are living all over the world to the land of Israel.
3. Will fight the "Wars of God" to restore the greater Israel which include parts of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq etc.
It's not that that untill the Messiah will show himself then the Jews are forbidden from living in Israel, not at all. On the opposite,
Jews must live in Israel cause Israel as the home of them and their presence in this land protect them.
Here's a list of Rabbis who will tell you that Jews must live in Israel:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Meir_Lau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Isaac_Kook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shlomo_Goren
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yitzhak_HaLevi_Herzog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avraham_Shapira
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isser_Yehuda_Unterman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordechai_Eliyahu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yona_Metzger
Couple of pictures:
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=1&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=2&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=3&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=4&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=5&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=6&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=7&topic_id=1990937
http://masoret.hevre.co.il/hydepark/topic.asp?whichpage=8&topic_id=1990937