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Areivim, I do go to the Koisel. But honestly, I get little meaning from it unless I go at midnight or later when it is quiet, because during the day it has become one more tourist site (NOT helped by some of ours who don’t treat it as anything but a place to schnorr and disturb others).
I spend only cash in EY as I know full well that storekeepers who get cash do not pay taxes, and I try to buy whatever I need in the non-Zionist sector. I think that other than taxi drivers, and occasionally Egged, I do not interact with the secular Zionist sector when I visit. El Al is not my first choice of airline.
Seichel, the people you speak of are few and far between. They are mostly in Teaneck and Cedarhurst; at best they retire to EY or their children go but they often fail and come right back.
And the fact is that with freedom for Jews everywhere but Iran (and that may come too if the riots get out of control and topple the Hamanite regime), we do not need the Zionist state. If it acted at least as well as the Waqf did in preserving holy sites, it would be one thing. If it really made Chevron, which is, unlike Tel Aviv, the source of our nationhood, safe for us it would also be another story. But it does not. And it does not properly protect those Jews who truly love the historical part of EY that was indeed given to the Jewish people derech ness, but that the Zionists desecrated from day one when Dayan OLBM surrendered control of har HaBayis to the Waqf. What is more, goyim see that it cannot properly wage a decisive war or make peace, and they then lose respect for Jews because they don’t differentiate between am Yisroel and the medine.
The medine is the ultimate golus Jew, a debased shlimazel who succeeds at nothing, stripped of his gaon Yaakov and servile to the nations upon whom he depends for a crust of bread and a bit of begrudged legitimacy. A little bent old survivor amus”h of the Churban, who lives in Williamsburgh or Stamford Hill or Antwerp (or in a Torah neighborhood in EY for that matter), whom these Zionists deride, and who truly did his share in rebuilding the Jewish people after the war, is the true “new Jew” along with his ehrlicher descendants.