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Health my family did not go to the Kotel before 1948, they lived by the Kotel for many generations, and tales of Arab intimidation of families and especially young women highlight the tensions of living under Ottoman rule, the Turks officially ruled the area, but the locals were Arabs, huge difference. I am not talking history book reading, but the daily life of family members. In Jerusalem there was much support for the creation of the State, especially from those Jews evicted from their homes by the Jordanian army, recent years has seen a hardening of antipathy, started all those years ago when certain rabbis deliberately chose to attack the state as well as their rabbinical rivals. Check out the disgraceful attacks on esteemed rabbinical figures such as Rabbi Kook, Rabbi Goren and in our era the highly regarded Chief Rabbi Lau.
We understand you hate the zionists and attribute all that is wrong to the zionist liars and plot. Growing up with arabic intrepreters I recall for many years the Arab states would not call Israel by its name but refer to it as the ” ZIONIST ENTITY”, it is loathesome to hear a Jew espouse the same vitriol. Last month in the Zionist state I saw doctors treating members of virulently anti zionist neturei karta after a road accident, it felt sickening to see the wounded being helped as they actually wore palestinian badges in support of the terrorists more than happy to kill the very medical staff assisting these people.
If you are happy and safe in America good for you, but to pour your hate over those keeping Eretz Yisrael safe seems grotesque. Quoting the Satmar Rav is not going to get any brownie points from me, since when did Satmar understand what Shalom bayis means, let alone ahavat yisrael? They cannot keep peace between their own leading rabbis and brothers.