2 Responses

1. What is the likelihood of this being done by a Shabak agent provocateur, an outside troublemaker, or a haredi yeshiva boy? Wasn’t some kid in Ashdod just caught making bomb threats all around the world? Obviously anyone who would do such a thing is as low and gross a miscreant as can be. I am not a protest or crowd goer. But I was moved and horrified by the murder of the Fogel family h’y’d, and I went to their levaya. There were three clowns there, one man in his 30’s and two teenagers. The teenagers had creases in their kipas (in other words they were usually in their pockets and not on their heads), Kahana Chai tee shirts, no tzitzit, and signs saying something that I forget. They were being directed by the older man, pushing through crowds, climbing walls and doing everything that they could to position themselves for the media. The first time that I took the train from Haifa to Tel Aviv I spend some time walking around looking at the train admiring it. I had two people confront me on the suspicion of being a Shabak agent. Whose agenda does it serve better to have the “knitted kippah crowd” looking down at the “black hatters.” The “black hatters” looking down on the “knitted kippah crowd.” The “Eitz crowd” looking down on the others. Everyone condemning Eitz for something like this. Etc, etc, etc. Chazal say that every generation that the Bait Hamikdash is not rebuilt, it is destroyed. Where are the fires stoked more, on the beaches of Tel Aviv on Shabbat or in our own internal divisions? I have no inside information, but which possibility is more likely, that this was done by a haredi yeshiva boy or an outside troublemaker?

2. More correctly: “an individual who CONSIDERS HIMSELF to be aligned…”. I don’t think any of those shitos condone defacing any kever, especially one of a universal gadol, no matter what is being written.

   But of course your hatred knows no bounds.