Hareidim also beleive that the most important mitsvah is learning Torah. Try it sometimes, so you don’t sound like such an ignorant fool.

Perhaps behaving as “foreigners” might be a more accurate description. Engage, talk to each other, with respect and interest and we can move forward. This advice is given to both opponents.

The zionists for the most part like foreigners since they do the work that the zionists don’t want to do. Zionism’s goal is to make Jews a people like all others, and being able to rule others was historically the mark of a successful nation. However hareidim are avdei ha-Shem, and we don’t like being ruled by others. As hard as some of us have tried, we’ll never be good zionists. We are already “in service” and it will never be to the state.

I sugggest that Porush is especially bitter since his family has been a leader in the movement to make hareidim part of the zionist state for over 60 years, and he is being forced to admit that his family was wrong, and their opponents (e.g. R. Yosef Haim Sonnenfeld, R. Yoel of Satmar, Dr. Jacob Israel De Haan, etc.) were right all along.