After the actor uploaded a story and managed to provoke an angry attack on the net, he tries to explain his motives: "I am disappointed with my country" • He later wrote: "I'm sorry if anyone is hurt"
Actor Maor Schweitzer ("She Has It," "Gallis," "Split," "Euphoria") decided to make his voice heard about everything that is happening in the country in a forum that addresses tens of thousands: his Instagram account.
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Last night (Saturday) Schweizer uploaded a series of videos from a demonstration against the government to his story, when two managed to stir up a storm when they won the captions: "Animals on Horses" (referring to the police on horseback who were involved in dispersing the protesters) and "Garbage State".
As expected, these captions were enough to stir up a storm on the net, and Schweizer, who did not remain indifferent to the anger created by his remarks, posted after several hours an Instagram post in which he tried to explain the motives that led him to use such charged language.
Schweizer (31) chose to share a video of MK Yurai Lahav-Herzno's speech from Yesh Atid, which deals with the distribution of funds approved by the Finance Committee for almost a billion shekels, and added: "A sad evening. To this day, I have sat on the sidelines. I sat on the sidelines, but something in this video touched me and woke me up. I realized that if we did not start doing something we would find ourselves without a state, without a future, without freedom. I am not interested in politics, it never matters. I have nothing personal against Bibi, no I care neither right nor left.
"When there are elections I choose the person I feel I trust at that moment, the person I feel can take us to a better place. Throughout my life I have also chosen Bibi, Bozi Herzog and Gantz as well as Orly Levy and her green husband at some point. I am not a leftist, I'm not right-wing, I'm just a citizen who wants to live in a country that cares about its citizens.
"I have no problem distributing money to the ultra-Orthodox. They are part of our people and they deserve budgets, but also Holocaust survivors deserve, and single mothers deserve and the disabled deserve and many other sectors that need in our society. What is annoying is mainly the timing it happened, while the ordinary citizens started businesses That drive the economy of this country are collapsing in the wake of the crisis.While there are children who have nothing to eat and need donations and food baskets from other citizens because the state does not care for them.
"I love our country and I want to be proud of it," Schweizer wrote, adding: "Today I exercised my right as a law-abiding citizen to go out and demonstrate near my house, one mile from home and no more than a meter. I went out with a mask, and the first thing I saw was police beating protesters And they break phones and cameras. Policemen on horses galloping towards girls who are dying of fear and in another moment get on them and injure them. When I asked one of the policemen, 'Brother, why is it violent?' He allowed himself to turn around and threaten me to shut up - otherwise ...
"I respect the police and the security forces," he clarified.
"There are a lot of them who deserve this honor and behave in glory. I know that unfortunately to use violence is instructions they receive from above. But the policemen who were in the demonstration today and behaved like this are ultimately the ones who get the ricochets from the public instead of the government. This violence is the split! Dear policemen? Am I not demonstrating for you too? Also for the future of your children? Am I living in North Korea and did not know it? ".
In conclusion, Schweizer stated: "I am disappointed with my country, but I stopped being silent. In the video the nice guy claims that there is one culprit, Benjamin Netanyahu, and I think he is wrong. There are 120 culprits, 120 homeless people who get up every morning and let it happen. Everyone should go home and not "Only he, everyone is equally guilty. If there are good people left in the Knesset, they currently have to work to change the system, because something in the system is screwed up and until it changes, the wheel will continue to turn in the same direction," concluded the post, which received more than 25,000 views and thousands of comments.
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Among the variety of respondents to the post was also Natalie Dadon, who wrote: "The reactions here are what our government has created. Shocking division! Impatience and inability to accept diverse and different opinions, fear of expressing an opinion. Oops why you pour evil on each other, respect !!!! ! ".
Actress Hila Saadon added: "The saddest thing is the division in our people and the reactions here. May we be united and together.
And a little tongue-in-cheek.
The name will be preserved ", while Adi Himalblawi and Amit Rahav were content with Keter's emojis.
On the other hand, most of the reactions were much less moderate, and did not hesitate to attack Schweizer in harsh and blatant words: "A small and miserable man. Come on go dumb I hope there will no longer be a zero piece on our screens", wrote an angry surfer and others added: "Not good for you Here? Chicken to Gaza. Call our cops and border fighters animals?
Like wow how zero can you be? "And" zero piece.
Offender.
How many photos were posted of you without a helmet in Tel Aviv?
Lots.
Complains to the police while not respecting laws in Israel.
Go and go to Hollywood and try your luck there because it will not happen here. "
Other commenters were furious at Schweizer: "You and your friends incite hatred and encourage violence. Who are you to write a garbage country? A piece of nothing and nothing. Spreaders of disease and hatred, outlaws who lock us in the house for another half year minimum. Garbage is you !!! "
And "Are you not ashamed? If you have nothing wise to say then do not say. And by the way, reminds you that the 'garbage state' you called it that way gives you the livelihood. Wish you that because of everything you raised today your work will decrease. For people like you "Yes, yes, like you who spit into the well from which they drink, you do not deserve to succeed. Shame on you!"
After seeing the angry reactions to the videos, Schweizer Story posted another response, in which he wrote: "So much hatred, so much unconsciousness. I feel sorry for myself if someone was hurt and felt I included all the cops. What I wrote was written in a moment of pain - specifically About the cops from the video who do not know how to behave. Who behaved with severe violence against civilians. If someone uploads a story of a movie I do not participate in and writes 'tin actors', I will not think he is talking about all the actors in the country.
"But we are in times where it is convenient to throw everything on the right or left, to cause hatred and to cause incitement. A leftist is not a curse, it is a legitimate opinion of people, even if they do not agree with it. Disclosure: I also in my opinions do not always agree with it. "Not the point. It has long been a war for our future as a country ... of all citizens together in the face of an attempt to challenge democracy."