The year ending is a difficult year, an angry year more than any year I can remember.
Netanyahu's supporters, who suffer every day when he is not sitting on the prime minister's seat, are angry.
Angry right-wing voters, who feel they have fallen victim to an unprecedented political sting.
Opponents of corona vaccines, who are being pushed to the corner every day, are angry.
Vaccine makers are angry at opponents, who do not give a shoulder to end the epidemic.
The decent Arabs are angry, feeling abandoned at the mercy of murderous gangs.
Farmers are angry about the reform that will take them out of the profession and out of the ground.
The drivers are angry, at the traffic jams that waste their free time standing endlessly on the roads.
The business owners are angry, not knowing what a day will bring, and their coffers are empty.
The disabled are angry, who do not receive a living allowance.
Angry caretakers of the earth are angry that the state is not working to stop global warming.
Lovers of the country are angry, for the filth of the unknown.
The old men are angry at their isolation during the plague.
The children are angry about canceling school and play time and converting it to zoom time.
The ultra-Orthodox are angry at the reformers at the Western Wall.
And the Palestinians - well, they're always angry.
Everyone is right.
almost.
The world this year has been unprecedentedly challenging in our lifetime.
There were of course several times harder times, but from the time we came into the world, there was not so much anger in the air.
And the one who fuels this anger is of course - the "social" networks, which make a living from anger.
I read a study this week that shows that the emotion that brings the most traffic to networks is anger.
The most likes are given to people who express anger in public space.
People who write about understanding, compassion, love - are far behind in the feedback race of the feed.
Network anchors in Israel and around the world live on spreading anger, on fueling hatred, on using language more harshly than necessary, in order to gain recognition and reinforcement from followers.
Their art is furious, and it's furious.
This year I made a decision - to leave social media almost completely.
I felt like I was putting into my body a bad drug, the drug of anger, an addictive substance, which gives a sense of power for a moment, then a strong fall and depression, until the next anger.
Then looking for someone to get angry at, and looking for other angry people to fuel my anger.
So I stopped posting opinions on Facebook, not approaching Twitter, not touching Instagram, and the name will keep from ticking, that I have no idea how to run at all.
I was very relieved.
I have reduced my exposure to the anger of others and also try not to get too angry in public, except for matters of real mind control.
Also offers you to make a good decision for the new year - to get out of the networks of anger and hostility.
And when the anger offered itself this year, they said to him: Thank you, I was already angry enough last year.
diverse
I laughed when I saw what the former president of the United States, the United States, had to say about our prime minister after their meeting: "He has the most diverse government in the history of Israel." Diversity is the most important word in the troubled Democrats today, The strategic.
But somehow, it is precisely our crumb government that suits them to the diverse agenda, and at this time it is an asset that the prime minister rightly stands out against, even if what he usually gets from it is a nuclear headache.
In the name of diversity, America is currently bringing millions of immigrants into its territory, immigrants who will become the social, economic and religious problems of the coming years. In the name of diversity, less talented people are appointed to senior positions, only because their skin color or sexual orientation or self-definition are currently considered worthy of promotion, in order to look diverse. In the name of diversity, our Jewish brethren in America will still pay the most expensive price of all, because unfortunately they are not considered diversity. And in the name of diversity, there is a situation where the United States will fall apart into its own countries, with the less diverse countries deciding that they want to live and not degenerate into a variety of types of violence and poverty, as will happen to countries and cities in democratic rule.
But as mentioned, at this point in time, our overly diverse government, in which diversity is pushing any possibility of displacement in any direction, is an asset in relations with the Biden administration. Since the Democrats have long since ceased to be interested in the essence and consider only external definitions, then a government with Arabs and progressives and national and religious, both Islamists and Jews and LGBTs and the disabled - is a dream. , Made of patchwork quilts like a beggar's coat, is particularly pleasing to Washington's fashion-conscious toners, and this is a particular consolation for the inability to make big moves, because of the mutual neutralization of the opposites' coalition.
It teaches us, at the dawn of a new year, that not everything that seems to us to be a disadvantage is indeed such, and that anything that seems to us to stick with our plans has an opportunity, and rebranding of problems sometimes turns them into benefits.
Do not say "split", say "colorful".
And most importantly - what sometimes seems to us as our weakness, can seem to others as the source of our strength.
Hope this is a diverse opinion in your eyes.
hooliganism
This is where the school year (?) Began. What do we wish her two days after it opens, when she is still soft?
First of all, that it will be a school year and not a year of isolation. It goes without saying. And the healthy ones will return home. That the word "zoom" will again describe the action of a camera, and not an unhappy teaching method. So far I have not renewed anything.
Social security for children.
this is the most important.
My heart bleeds anew every time I interview sweet boys and girls from pomegranate honey, who find themselves boycotted for months and years.
Their short childhood days become a long nightmare of social alienation at school, harassment in networks, loneliness and depression.
Once we have finished arguing about where warehouses are, the new minister, Dr. Shasha Bitton, should deliver an inaugural speech and a statement that the ultimate goal of her tenure is to eradicate this widespread phenomenon, which cuts into the souls of innocent boys and girls, from whom they will never be released.
In the opposite world we live in today, the system contains the thugs and crushes the victims.
The progressive spirit raging in the corridors of schools topples spaces that have done nothing, only come to learn and connect with their peers, and find themselves trampled to the ground by their classmates.
The dimensions of the epidemic of boycotts and expulsions require rigid, swift and decisive steps, no more cotton candy talk.
In a reformed education system, every school will have a socially protected officer with very broad powers.
As soon as a boycott or excommunication begins, the abusive children will be summoned for a conversation, and it will be made clear to them that the boycott will end at that moment.
Whoever continues, will be immediately removed to a special class for social bullies, and his parents will be summoned for a conversation.
This is where a therapeutic process will begin, with the aim of teaching the child and his parents what a boycott means.
If parents express support for the abusive child and blame the victim, as is often the case today, both parents and the child will be removed from school to a special framework, to be established in each city for the rehabilitation of young sociopaths and their parents.
When rehabilitated, they will return to school.
Displacing the teeth of the education system and neutralizing any possibility of significant punishments, such as expulsion from school, cost the souls of thousands of children a year.
Without the elimination of bullying from schools, no flowers will grow here.
5722 - There will be a year less bullying. Amen.
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