Iranian cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda welcomed the failure of diplomatic and mediation efforts to end the war with the United States, saying on Friday that they had reached a deadlock. “Fortunately, all efforts to negotiate with the killers of our martyred leader have failed and produced no results,” Alamolhoda, the Friday prayer leader of Mashhad in northeastern Iran, said, referring to the late supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He said Iran should resist pressure from the United States and reject concessions, arguing that the country's armed forces had shifted from a defensive to an offensive strategy.

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They say that Aharon HaKohen died on Rosh Chodesh Av, the beginning of the 9 Days. With his death, the Bnei Yisrael lost the clouds of protection in the desert. Aharon was said to be someone who was a Rodef Shalom and Ohev Shalom, someone who tried to make peace between arguing parties, even going as far as to lie to each party that the other one wanted to reconcile. It doesn’t seem accidental that protection from harm in the desert for the Bnei Yisrael was in the merit of the man who encouraged agreeableness between people. And while we are still mastering the pastime of millennia-old internal fighting, we wonder why the nations of the world every few decades decide that the Jews are so horrible. Maybe for the next 9 days, when you feel the urge to post or yell at your fellow member of the tribe, you remember that we are all one, even if sure doesn’t feel like it.