Yom Ha’atzmauth – Joshua Shalet

I respectfully disagree with RD Bar Hayyim about saying הלל: I cannot in good conscience say it for many reasons;

1. There is no סנהדרין with such authority to make a new יום טוב
2. The בית המקדש remains unbuilt to our everlasting shame and an impure Islamic shrine stands there instead. It would be preferable if absolutely no one was allowed up there
3. The government is by all accounts מלכות שמד and a מלכות זדון
4. The Rabbinic establishment here is corrupt to the core: they cannot rule without being נוגע לדבר so long as they take gov salaries
5. The establishment makes עליה more difficult than it needs to be: they do this because they know that if a million or so authentic Orthodox Jews would come here, their power would diminish
6. The people still cling to the demented economic ideology that is socialism, the unhinged social ideology that is post-modern liberalism, and the deranged political ideology that is democracy
7. The Arabs are not being persuaded to leave (no violence necessary)