When I say that the USA is the true "promised land" for the Jewish people: I could say the same thing for all the persecuted people in the world: from the Pilgrim Fathers to the Hmong.
As far as I am concerned the USA and Zionism are direct rivals... as incompatible as oil and water when you explore their ideologies. Certainly the American traditions are not amenable to any form of ethnic or religious exclusivity.
An American Jew, Emma Lazarus, wrote these famous lines that every American school child studies and recites:
The New Colossus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Emma Lazarus, New York City, 1883
That is probably the best summing up of what I mean by "promised land".
I have come to the conclusion that Zionism is a horrible trap -- moral and physical -- for the Jewish people... my idea is closer to that of the ultra-orthodox who think that the Messiah is the only one who could pull it off. That is a very poetic way of expressing how I see it.
I'm against Zionism not because I hate the Jews, quite the contrary.