!אטא דא ליגט דער הונט באגראבען

I know, that's a terrible pun, but I could not resist! כו"ע מודו that Satmar has some of the biggest ליצים around. Along with some of the biggest קנאים. You can find most anything there - if  you look hard enough. But seldom do you see a story like this, where the ליצנות and the קנאות go hand in hand. What we have here is a group - seemingly a group of Satmar Chassidim who traveled with the Satmar Rebbe to Eretz Yisroel.  I'd venture to say that they do not worry about פרנסה very much, otherwise they'd be working. After all who has time and money to travel to ארה"ק just like that? These fine Jews are limited by the ויואל משה as far as where they can travel and visit in the Holy Land. And how much can one sit in ים המלח looking up at the sky after all? You can't come to EY and not enjoy yourself... so you go to the flash points, to Goloventzitz, where they found bones, and you are "מוחה". That way you feel good about your קנאות and you justify your trip somewhat. But the לץ in you can't help himself. He needs to sing צאן קדשים after his קנאות טאנץ, because he knows it's all a joke. There's nothing there. All those years of fighting, and all the money that was lost by developers and people who made down payments - it was all for naught. And like we said at the outset, דא ליגט דער הונט באגראבען, it's not about the bones. And the fact that they showed up the Zalis, who still maintain that it's full of קברי הקדמונים, that doesn't hurt either - and the דידן נצח is on them too.

Some background info on the whole "controversy." (Hebrew)

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