I learned something new, and if you read until the end, you will too.
Eruvin 53b:
אמר רבי יהושע בן חנניה מימי לא נצחני אדם חוץ מאשה תינוק ותינוקת… אשריכם ישראל שכולכם חכמים גדולים אתם מגדולכם ועד קטנכם.
Here goes:
First I published an article by Chananya Weissman here: The War Is Not Against Hamas. It’s Against the Jews!
A female subscriber wrote in response:
This article by weissman is HUGE חילול השם
The fact that you print it makes you just as bad as him.
Hyehudi Editor responds:
This is not the first time.If you care to elaborate perhaps we can have a constructive dialogue.And I might post your critique (with or without a name, if you please).
And Hyehudi Editor (again):
This is true not only of Israel. Here is what I wrote 5 years ago:
The reader:
I just read the article you sent me and you are so far off from the truth.
How can you write this?
Are Jews alive on this earth to kill other Jews? Not at all. However, that’s what the arabs are here for.
Watch this.
Hyehudi Editor responds:
Not sure what you mean.As for the video, please note it will take me a while to listen due to my filter.
And Hyehudi Editor again (after listening to the recording):
Proves my point.Look how “our” state does everything possible to turn them into enemies, from creating Hamas, funding it in several ways, channeling funds to it, and giving them weapons, to giving them “dual purpose” goods the better to kill Jews with.He speaks of incitement, etc. Well, who allowed Aza to become this way in the first place?He says there are no innocents. Would you say that reflects official Israeli policy? Ha.On the contrary, the rhetoric of the regime ostensibly representing the Jewish people encourages the enemy of their own justice.I wrote more about this here:
Had I wanted to echo fashionable Hasbara I wouldn’t have created the site…
Well, I didn’t hear back, so I wrote this:
Care to respond before I post this exchange?
And… Intermission. Checkmate in one move!
Should I give you the lady’s response now, or do you all want to guess first?
Ok, I’ll wait…
Ready? OK. Now watch closely.
The reader:
I do not have time to respond unfortunately. I have one son in aza (so his wife needs help). Then there are 2 sons in law, 2 daughters, with 5 grandchildren. One is on his way to aza and one is going back up north. The daughter of the one going up North is due next Tuesday and I am going in for operation next week. So all in a days work למען המדינה וארץ קדשנו Thanks for the offer though
בעזרת השם נעשה ונצליח
Can you send me what you post?
Thanks again
The End.
Victory (but not mine).
So, now I look like a callous kid (at best), while she is the one with Soul in the game, with Skin in the game. There is absolutely nothing I can say (on\off topic) to get me out of this. At this point, saying anything more can only make things worse (akin to the Gra here).
Related story: Upon Dr. Yeshayahu Leibowitz saying “Rachel Imeinu” wasn’t technically “our” mother, since most of us aren’t from the tribes of Yosef and Binyamin (He’s wrong by the way, see Rashi Ruth 4:11), he got unanswerable letters, sidestepping the logic, and basically yelling “THAT’S MY MOTHER YOU’RE TALKING ABOUT!”
I give up.