One of the bloggers who politely corresponds with me in private, yet treats me like a stranger in public is highly aggrieved about the dirty-diaper throwing demonstrations that take place in Jerusalem for the sake of Shabbos. He's right to be upset about this Jew-on-Jew violence ("A Jew Doesn't Evict a Jew"? Fine. So pelting him with human feces is OK?)

I've made this point in real life, but most people I know are quick with excuses for the rock throwers... oh, he's so sincere... oh its only because he cares so much about shabbos; isn't that a wonderful thing? Others, like the goon-enablers at Cross Currents, imagine that such public desecrations of God's name are either exaggerated by the Jew-hating media, or blessed and coordinated by the all-knowing gedolim.

I say the problem starts with the schools where young Jewish boys and girls are trained in the ways of the timid and prepared to live their lives as hyper-defensive conformists.