Last Wednesday and Thursday, as haredi radicals were calling anyone supporting the Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem illegitimate Jews, as well as Egyptians, of all things (which has some creepy parallels with this sort of drivel) , and usign violent protest as an intimidation tactic, Rav Lazer actually stood up and said that while he didn't support the marchers, haredi violence was counter-productive, particularly when it involved trashing their own communities:
Raising a hand against a fellow Jew is a heinous sin. Let everyone calm down and let the Impurade march around its home turf of the Knesset, the government offices, and the faculty of Archeology. Lets get back to more important things.
Amen, Rav.
However, no sooner had the Rabbi made his peace with the parade ("Our free choice is to try and stop the parade. Apparently, for Divine reasons that we can't understand, Hashem is deciding otherwise. Whatever Hashem does is for the very best."), then God threw a curve-ball. What was Lazer's response?
Only 48 hours before the planned Impurade, the Israeli Artillery made a mistake so miserably bad, that it can only be a miracle: From a relatively short range, they were off target by nearly 1000 meters, killing 19 Gazans. The Palestinians have now cancelled their hudna, and are screaming for revenge. Israeli internal security has nearly 100 warnings of imminent terrorist threats. The police went back to the courts and claimed that with 12,ooo blues guarding the pinks, then Israel's security would have black prospects. So once again, Hashem has prevented the Impurade. The parade has now been toned down to a rally within the confines of the local university, which is anyway deep-seeded with intellectual and spiritual impurity.
Yeah, thanks God! Thanks for sparing Jerusalem all that defilement and the hareidm the terrible choice of killing their fellow Jews or risk letting their kids see some colorful flags. And all it cost was the lives of 19 expendable A-rabs. You really do know how to get a deal!
Also, since when do we thank God for making the army incompetent killers? It would be one thing if Lazer was thanking the Big Guy for "guiding the soldiers' hands" to stop killers, but thanking him for a deadly accident (that killed women and children) because it helped swing a political descision? That's sick. What's next, thanking God for Paul Wellstone's plane crash? Or the Chernobyl meltdown? (LessUkrainians= less anti-semites, right?)
Is the moral here that whatever makes things go "our" way, bloody as it may be, counts as a miracle, as long as it isn't Jews that are dying?
Keep your miracles. I don't want them.
1 comment:
That's theodicy for you.
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