Does anyone find the recent Hafganos in Yerushalayim outrages and a Chillul Hashem?
No really. Most sensible people have come to expect such antics from Chareidim. We also don’t really expect them to behave any better. A chayeh bleibt a chayeh. After all rock throwing, dumpster burning and other destructive behavior have been going on for decades. Large birth rates in those communities means more hoodlums around to do it.
Does anyone think this is totally normal – trowing rocks at the cops, damaging police cruisers, burning dumpsters, smashing traffic lights?
For Chareidim this is perfectly normal. For civilized people it is an outrage.
Does anyone think that we have lost “our way”?
I haven;t. But Chareidim are not part of my weltanschaung.
Does anyone think that the Gedolim are sending these people out to protest in this fashion? If you do, then where are the Gedolim? Why aren’t they out there tossing rocks? And if you think that they are not supportive of this type of Hafganah, then why don’t they appear in PERSON at one of these violent Hafganos and physically yell and scream at the protesters to stop it?
What Gedolim? We have no gedolim anymore. We have well learned men cowering in fear of extremists, pandering to the pressures of the right wing.