I think the last line I quoted is especially applicable for ourselves.

As for making a Macha, that seems to be our community’s response to everything. We have been making Machas for hundreds of years now against the secular. Ask yourself if it’s been a successful tactic. We made Machas against secular education in our schools, against having the Rav’s Drasha in the vernacular, against moving to America,etc. Did they work?? A macha in a situation like this has zero effect, it only serves to heighten tension.

Yes, I agree, some of their leaders want to push our buttons by having the parade in Yerushalayim. But consider Hillel Hanasi’s response to the man who tried to push his buttons. He didn’t reject the man outright as you outrightly reject these people. He had a dialogue.

#12- I don’t need a source to tell me that our primary focus is bringing back our lost brothers, any more than I need a source telling me it’s forbidden to cut off my arm.
Imagine if a family lost a young child in a violent storm- Do you think the child’s older brother would focus on making his bed and keeping his house warm and cozy in case the child somehow finds his way back on his own The older brother would be the first one out in the storm searching desperately for the child, his own safety irrelevant.

We should be out in the storm, not shutting ourselves in our cozy house.

…Verse 29: For anyone who will do any of these abominations, their souls shall be cut off, those who do these things, from among their people.

Notice how Hashem is saying that they will be cut off eternally? Yes, that’s in the next world, but you see that there are consequences to this action of theirs. There are consequences in this world as well – and they are doing it to themselves. We can and should be nice to them as people, but we should just let them prance and skip around the holy city of Yerushalyim. There is something called a micha’a, that is what Pinchas did, and that’s what the Deputy Mayor wants to do. Kol Hakavod!

In modern orthodox circiles there are people who ahve begun to look for creative Halachik solutions to the Torahs outright rejection and repultion of this “way of life”. If we are too tolerant we could C’V end up there too HASHEM YIRACHAIM!!!!!!!

So maybe it is not so bad to be a “radical” from time to time

Why are they holding this parade in our holy city?

I will let you in on a secret- they know we find it very offensive and they want to make the point that in the Jewish religous capital they will parade around in support of their values. If they were really honest about tolerance they would respect that we find it repulsive.

In case you are not aware western goverments, liberal media, the great bastions of modern day teaching i.e. ivy league school, all are very respectfull of Muslim values.

Maybe vilonce works????????????

I hope all those who wrote against will surrender to Das Torah, after all Rav Elyashiv, SHLITA knows all that they wrote and still thinks there shoudl be some kind of Mechaa (this yr the route was lenghtened)