We think we were pretty good yesterday about taking a pass at some of the more... zealous... expressions of anger on the pro-Israel side of the Jewish blogosphere. Everyone tends to lose themselves when extreme shock gives way to extreme anger - even when Google means that their confused sentiments are meticulously recorded and indexed. But it's the day after now and people need to stop being hysterical:

The people directly affected by the deadly terrorist attack on the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva are not just the students, their relatives and friends, but the much wider larger segment of the religious Zionist public. This segment of the population, already seething with anger, which started with the Disengagement in 2005, the Amona pullout, the government promises to America remove illegal outposts, the continued diplomatic process launched at Annapolis and its emphasis to talk about all topics, including Jerusalem, is going to be extremely unhappy about this attack. Together with the grief and sorrow, there is going to be a lot of angry talk about good and evil, about a religious war over the Holy Land... Settler radio talk- show hosts are interpreting this prophecy by saying that if the Jews don't stop Hamas, the Palestinians, Hizbullah and any other Islamic fundamentalists God will force the Jews to do it. The talk-show hosts blame Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and President Shimon Peres.

Stirrings of a religious-secular civil war? Oh good. Because in the meantime God will take over raining down fire on the terrorists in the Gaza Strip. No wait - that job will be left to an IAF pilot most likely from a kibbutz or from Tel Aviv. But at least the Divine Creator will tell anti-Israel diplomats to get bent. Actually that job will eventually fall to Bibi or Bogie - and neither of those guys turn their cell phones off on weekends.

People are more than welcome to wait on grim heavenly retribution. But in the meantime could they kindly stay away from microphones, newspapers, and keyboards so the rest of us can stop getting spammed with zealous wailing? Just on the offchance that Eliahu doesn't consider low-level talks between Israel and a powerless Palestinian figurehead sufficient criteria for ushering in the End Times. As for calls to "round up" the "Oslo Criminals" - we're assuming that the sixty or seventy percent of Israelis who supported Rabin the first time
and elected Barak after Bibi gave the City of the Patriarchs to Arafat - we're assuming that they're included in those fantasies of revenge too, right?

Which isn't to say that anger at the Israeli government for its confused incompetence is inappropriate. But Kadima and Labor are the opposition. The enemy is the side shooting schoolchildren. Seeing this massacre through a religious-secular lens doesn't help anybody except genuine enemies of the Jewish State - and if you need to be convinced of that from the religious side, consider that there are dorms halls at Tel Aviv U with more people than all of Mercaz Harav.

References:
* Attack will be seen in Messianic terms [JPost]

Previously:
* Mere Rhetoric is Mean to Religious Jews
* You Can't Say That - De Hartog Should Have Slapped Yacov Cohen Twice For Calling Him A Nazi
* Knock It Off