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Charles Joseph's avatar

Maybe stopping the non stop trashing of them as if it's a personal grudge would be more conducive to achdus. You be the bigger man, celebrate those of them that come and stop with the neo anti semitic Jew bashing. Your hatred is showing.

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The **REAL** reason we are not going is simple. It's not the reason that you claim we profess, neither is it the reason that you suggest to be the real reason. Rather, the outlook of Chareidi Jewry vis-a-vis the state of Israel for the last 80 years has always been that we acknowledge that it serves a role in allowing us to live in Eretz Yisroel and work with the situation on the ground (unlike Satmar), yet we in no way endorse Zionism or feel that the actual State of Israel is a good thing or facilitating the Geulah. Yes, the fact that Jews are able to live in Eretz Yisroel and practice Judaism freely is a good thing and possibly the initial stages of the Geula, but the actual Zionist entity was founded as another cynical way to uproot Judaism, and secular Zionism still tries to do that until this very day.

Therefore, situations such as these put us into a real quandary. On the one hand, we are very much concerned about the situation in Eretz Yisroel, and daven a lot and send financial assistance (as well as check the news compulsively), but on the other hand, our Gedolim feel that it would be a massive chilul Hashem to have thousands of Chareidi Jews showing up to support a Zionistic function. Anyone capable of understanding nuance will have no trouble understanding this, but apparently, many of those who frequent this site do not.

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