The entire Israel is in jeopardy, Jewish children are running for cover into shelters, and yet at that very moment when bombs are falling all around us, Chareidim are commenting on Chareidie news sites like VIN and Yeshivah World (and DIN, I delete them) spewing hate, poison and outright enmity and malice towards the only Jewish State in the entire world.
את חטאי אני מזכיר היום I have to admit that I follow social media, which includes platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. I am also on many Chareidie WhatsApp groups.
I have to say that the comments coming from people of the Chassidishe and Yeshivisha communities match the most vile, vicious and hateful remarks that come from Arab and Nazi sympathizers. You don't have to go to these antisemitic sites to be revolted and disgusted, all you have to do is read the comments on Chareidie WhatsApp groups or the comments on sites like VIN and Yeshivah World to see mamash hate against our brothers and sisters living in Eretz Yisrael. Be thankful that you are not on their WhatsApp groups.
Where is this hate coming from? How can a frum Jew from "Zera Avraham" not have some empathy, some sympathy for the millions of Jews living in the State of Israel?
How is it that a frum Jew from a Yeshiva background can sit back on his leather chair in his comfortable home, in Boro-Park, Williamsburg, Monsey, Monroe, Flatbush, Lakewood etc, and take the time to write the most repulsive, morally debased, depraved, comments while his relatives are being bombed?
I have a clue, and you may disagree with me on this, but I believe that this hate was instilled into our children by books like Vayoel Moshe, Al Hagilah, The Empty Wagon, and websites like Torah True Jews.
I'll give you an example.
Way back in 1948 when the IDF was able overcome 5 Arab armies, the anti-Zionist rabbanim were shouting that the IDF was taking all the credit for themselves and were arrogantly stating כוחי ועצם ידי "it is our might that was able to overcome them." The anti-Zionist rabbanim pointed to that and said "you see they don't believe that Hashem had anything to do with that" they are apikorsim!
In 1967 when the IDF destroyed the armies of Egypt, Syria and Jordan, in six days, Chareidim like all Jews were excited of these open miracles! It brought a "baal teshuva" movement like no other in the entire history of the Jewish people.
The Satmar Rebbe was in a panic and got extremely worried that his entire premise was collapsing and falling apart, so he quickly had Yoel Ashkanazi push out a booklet called "Al Hageulah, where he stated unequivocally that the six-day war was in fact not a miracle but that the IDF was naturally a great army and that it was their strength that won the war, his argument now was the exact same argument that they claimed the IDF made, that they won the war in 6 days because of כוחי ועצם ידי ???????
And he added something very bizarre, he writes that the Satan, the "Sitra Achra" helped the IDF in winning the war! "It was no miracle, it was the "sitra achra" combined with כוחי ועצם ידי!
So as I said many times, to extend this logic one has to ask why is it that when it comes killing 6 million Jews, it is the Ribbono Shel Oilom, but when it comes to saving Jews like in the six-day war, then it was the Satan?
It makes absolutely no sense, but the damage was done, and this anti-Zionism was embedded into the very souls of innocent young children, and this is now the result, we should not be at all surprised, as "the chickens have come home to roost." This absurd radical theory was adopted by the Litvishe world as well.
I copied and pasted just a sample of this vile and vicious hatred of the Jewish State! Keep in mind that this was written when bombs were being launched against Jewish people living in Israel!
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Your idol is being pummeled with rockets by savages yet you still worship that idol and its “festival”?