Why is the obviously man-made holiday we, in the diaspora, celebrate on say, the "eighth" of Pesach or Succos any different from the man-made holiday celebrating the creation of the state of Israel? And if you're going to say that YA celebrates a military victory, and a secular deliverance there's precedant for that, too. Remember Purim? And not just the original Purim, but the local Purims established by Jewish communities to celebrate their own secular deliverance from anti-Semites and tyrants.
Can't we think of YA as just another local Purim?
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