I almost fell for it

At the Seder, I said a few words about the holiness of the night and I almost said that it's especially holy because we are in the land of Israel. But I remembered Rabbi Soloveitchik saying this:

“It means chovos ha’mitzvos in chutz l’aretz is not to be considered a prologue or introduction to kiyum ha’mitzvos in Eretz Yisrael. They are of the same importance. A Jew who takes an esrog in chutz l’aretz has the same reward, the same schar, as the Jew who takes an esrog in Eretz Yisrael.” [Holzer, The Rav Thinking Aloud, p. 231]

I almost fell for the Zionist line that your mitzvos are different in Israel, that they are better in Israel. But that shows a lack of faith in the Divine will that HaShem invested in every mitzvah. The seder is the same in Chicago as Jerusalem. The power of the mitzvah is the same no matter where you perform it. There's one caveat: if you perform it with less enthusiasm because you are unhappy in Israel  then it will be LESS powerful there. Likewise, if you have absorbed Israeli anger, or obsession with the state or Arabs, if your faith is lower because now your faith is in the army, heaven forbid, or if you study less Torah in Israel because you work six days a week - then the mitzvah will be less in Israel. 

As much as I resist the aliyah propaganda lines from bitter experience, they still get to you. Either that or it was surfacing of a line which is partly responsible for conning me into moving here.