Tisha B'av

I just had a long post about Tisha B'Av that I somehow lost. Here is some of what I had written:

I believe today is Tisha B'Av which is the ninth day of the month of Av in the Jewish calendar. It is the saddest day of the year for the Jewish people.

On Tisha B'Av, on different years: (I'm copying the below because I just don't want to retype my version.)

1. The sin of the spies caused Hashem to decree that the Children of Israel who left Egypt would not be permitted to enter the land of Israel;

2. The first Temple was destroyed;

3. The second Temple was destroyed;

4. Betar, the last fortress to hold out against the Romans during the Bar Kochba revolt in the year 135, fell, sealing the fate of the Jewish people.

5. One year after the fall of Betar, the Temple area was plowed.

6. In 1492, King Ferdinand of Spain issued the expulsion decree, setting Tisha B'Av as the final date by which not a single Jew would be allowed to walk on Spanish soil.

7. World War I – which began the downward slide to the Holocaust – began on Tisha B’av.

In 2005, on Tisha B'Av the Jewish people in the holy land of Israel are being expelled once again. But this is the first time in history that Jews are expelling other Jews.

Sharon should be ashamed of himself. I'm not Jewish, but I think this year's Tisha B'Av will go down in infamy as being at least equal to 1492's.