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american_yerushalmi
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Health: I suggest consulting with some gedolei Torah and find out their opinion before expressing your ideas. I’ve never heard of ANY gadol suggest what you seem to be advocating. Why do you even dream that Turkey would want E.Y at all? Because the Ottoman Empire had it about 100 years ago? The Byzantines and the Romans had it even earlier than that. Well, they don’t exist anymore, you will say. Well, guess what? The Ottoman Empire doesn’t exist anymore either. Ask the president or PM of Turkey if their state is a continuation of the Ottoman Empire. You know very well what they will say. “The Ottoman Empire is gone, finished! Today’s Turkey is a modern, secular state.”

You know what there is instead? There’s Hamas, ISIS, and assorted cutthroats who would jump into any kind of power vacuum, any kind of lack of control, security in the country. They would be more than happy to c”vs massacre every Yid that they could get their hands on. INCLUDING THE FRUMME YIDDEN. Don’t delude yourself. The ISIS murderers wouldn’t blink for a moment to slaughter everyone. Before 1948 the situation was different. Today’s situation requires a different approach. We have to put up with the present political structure, with all of its serious flaws. Because any other stance, particularly the one you are advocating, is a serious danger to around 7 million Yidden living here in E.Y. Don’t believe me? Come here and arrange a meeting with Rev Chaim Kanievsky and Rav Ahron Leib Steinman. They will tell you that what we have to do is build more Torah institutions, more shiurim, more kiruv, spread more light of Yiddishkeit. That is our job. One can disdain the govt. while still caring about the Yidden, even the seculars, who live here. You don’t like this idea? That’s your prerogative. But don’t sit in the USA and criticize what the gedolim here are telling us to do.