Derech Hamelech: My comment was entirely separate from the political issues- I was just utterly shocked at what nfgo3 called akuperma’s “cavalier attitude” toward the loss of Jewish lives. Whether this is better or worse than shmad doesn’t enter the picture (though I really don’t think that there is a straightforward answer), but comments like “pogroms happen,” “we are old hands at surviving genocide,” “to frum Jews, it’s a matter ‘oh, that again’,” and “live with it” just don’t, to put it way more mildly than it deserves, really show a lot of compassion, caring and horror when something like that happens.
As much as people (obviously) hate to admit Stalin was right, his quote about one person being a tragedy and a million being a statistic just seems to be pretty apropos. If something like this were to happen right now in Israel, would akuperma say “Oh, that again! Pogroms happen- live with it!”? I sincerely hope not.