It started with The politics of fasting on Tisha B'Av .
It continued with Haredi rabbis must speak out in child-abuse cases .
It was followed by The painful cost to Israel of its settler adventure.
The boiling point was reached with Haredis vs. seculars - The end of the Third Temple.
Two days before Tisha b'Av - to be subject to such articles in an Israeli newspaper - al eleh ani bochiya.
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu to you. I will not be reading your newspaper anymore.
Two days before Tisha b'Av, we should be focusing on ahvas chinam.
"The Jerusalem Talmud explains the Mitzvah to love a fellow Jew with a parable: If a man was to cut a piece of meat with a knife, and by mistake the knife cut his hand, would one imagine that one hand would hit the other to reprimand it? Each Jew must view the other as part of the same body. Living with a day to day awareness that all Jews are limbs of the same body is the true fulfillment of the Mitzvah."
http://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/361892/jewish/Ahavat-Yisrael.htm
If a second Hitler should arise, chas veshalom, he would not differentiate between charedi, secular or settler. We are all part of the same body. Let's unite and treat all our brothers with the utmost respect and love. May this be the last Tisha B'Av of mourning, of strife and disunity.
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