Having been away for a while, I haven’t had time to read all these posts, but find the whole topic a bit silly.
Who cares about this guy Kastner and what he did or did not do? How in the world does that have anything to do with the merits of Zionism as a whole? How does it make me a better person or help me with my avodas hashem or limud Torah to track down 50-year-old testimony about somebody named Kastner. What could be more useless, except to a historian who needs this knowledge for some constructive purpose.
I guess this is a very holy precept. If it is so holy, how about adding it to kiddush.
Yom Hashishi, down with Kastner, vayechulu hashomayim vhaaretz vchol tzvaam, Kastner was a horrible guy, vayechal elokim bayom hashvii melachto asher asah, Kastner was a despicable man…
See how much holier my kiddush has become now.
The point is, what in the world does one guy named Kastner have to do with the Zionist enterprise as a whole? The accomplishments of the State of Israel and the quality of life, the furthering of Torah and Tefilah, the access to the mkomos hakedoshim, the binyan haaretz, the kibutz golyos, the scientific innovations, the fact that its citiziens are happy, the flowering of the desolate land (ein lcha ketz megulah mizeh) are nothing short of the biggest miracle in the last 2000 years. A downtrodden nation who lost almost everything in the holocaust was picked up by the RBSH and shown that he has not forsaken us, and allowed us to go back home to the land of the avos hakedoshim.
What one guy named Kastner did or did not do, which we will never know anyway, since people in the war often did not even know what happened to their own family members, let alone strangers like Kastner, is totally irrelevant to any discussion of the merits of the State of Israel.
Does the fact that some chareidim have been child molesters mean that all chareidim are treif? Should we get rabbonim to close all the yeshivas, since some of these guys may have learned in one?
Let’s stop already with this silly nonsense, as if anything hinges on what one man did or did not do in the middle of a terrible war and time of chaos.