Utah: “…the State of Israel does a lot of good for the Jewish people. The state gives funding to yeshivas and other Jewish institutions.”
If a murderer shoots a number of people, and at one point, he decides, “OK, I’ll let some of these folks live.” Should we sing the praises of this murderer for not shooting them all? Killing some people and sparing a few — is that reason to show gratitude?
The state has spiritually (and physically…) murdered so many immigrants over the years. This is not ancient history; it happened only about 60-80 years ago. And they still try to do it whenever they can get away with it. The majority of the secular population of Israelis are the result of spiritually murdering them or their parents/grandparents. So, ring a ding ding, they allow a few religious schools to flourish, not nearly at the same level of subsidy as the ‘murdering’ (secular) schools. So, should we be grateful to the spiritual murderers of so many of our fellow Jews?
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Hence, according to Chazal, whatever good the state has done is outweighed by the spiritual destruction that it has deliberately wrought among the Jewish people. We are grateful to Hashem that He caused them to spare us and our families. But, the spiritual wasteland they have created surely does not deserve a drop of praise from any of us.