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Re 67: That is just a proof that the Zionist idea of being like all the nations is a failure and a disaster to Jews. It proved once and for all that for the Zionists, Jewish values meant nothing, and that they thought Har HaBayis was theirs to do what they want with and use as a peace offering, rather than Hashem’s and given bederech ness to very undeserving Jews.
No one understood the implications of the Waqf transfer at the time – except those who had the power to do otherwise. But they did not care. They did not want to show the whole Muslim world that Hashem had taken Har HaBayis away from tribes who worship a meteorite in Mecca. They traded a real victory for American aid that allowed their ridiculous socialist economy to run for 20 odd more years, and for complacency that led to the disaster of 1973 and the beginning of people questioning the whole Zionist enterprise and starting to advocate more and more surrender as they saw that the medine was not invincible. And here, too, they could have marched all the way to Cairo and Damascus as Hashem gave His foolish people yet another chance in EY – but they were beholden to the US and had to listen to Kissinger and Nixon instead of HKBH.
In short, the medine showed that it was not the New Jew. It was and is the ultimate beaten, degraded golus Jew, a schnorrer of funds and favors which thinks it needs the world to justify its very existence. Contrast that to the shearis hapleita who after all they suffered, did not give up and instead rebuilt proud Torah lives in proud Torah communities on Hashem’s terms all over the world, and who now have KAH BH three digit numbers of proud, frum descendants. Who is the New Jew? The answer is, the bent old man, a survivor of the Nazis, the Communists or even both, probably close to 90 now KAH BH, who comes to his descendants’ simchas and looks out over a whole hall of his ehrlicher descendants, who like himself proudly live Torah lives and have no fear of showing who they are.
Re: charedi influence. 1967 was not now as far as charedi influence in government was concerned. The frum population was far smaller; the great wave of tshuva had not begun, and while as a matter of fact charedim except the kanoim did see the victory as a ness, it hardly mattered to the memsheles zadoin and Dayan OLBM (who loved the land so much he stole antiquities, sold them, and passed on a very nice estate) what any Yid who believed in Torah thought.