This week my students' school students went on a reciprocal visit to a school in Kalenswa.
it was great.
The Arab students and teachers waited for them with peak excitement, sang at the entrance "More peace will come to us", then played all kinds of games carefully prepared by the staff, and for a moment there seemed to be a common future in this country - if only children knew from a young age, one would speak Second, they will play together and learn.
I learned about the successful visit, along with half of the parents, from photos that came live during it, because my daughters stayed home.
I was afraid of a stray bullet or a deliberate bundle, and with all due respect to coexistence, at that time I preferred to be strictly security-minded.
These, the violent and separatists among the Israeli Arabs, managed to frighten us, and put in our hearts soft thoughts about the loss of the state and other scenarios that Jews are used to thinking about.
Before we let ourselves sink into black bile, a second we will understand the numbers.
There are exactly 20 percent Arabs in Israel.
Of them there are Christians, with whom there are usually no problems and vice versa, there are Druze, who are mistakenly counted as Arabs but they are our brothers, and there are the Arabs of East Jerusalem who are not citizens.
Therefore, there are only 14.1 percent of Muslim Arab citizens in the country.
Now let's say that out of them, and I'm exaggerating, there are 10 percent violent, nationalist, dangerous.
Everyone else is dying to fit in already, but they are not comfortable saying.
That is, we are facing a problematic audience of about one and a half percent of the population in overestimation, and I believe even less.
Illustration: Yehuda Nuni, Nuni-art.com
Such a minority does not rule a state, does not occupy cities and does not determine the life of anyone, unless the police have been neutered, as happened here.
And since these guys have plans for us for the near term, in blood and fire and the whole familiar story, the idea of the National Guard now being drafted must go into sports gear.
Minister Bar-Lev should be excluded from the discussions on this.
It is, according to the publisher, a serious deterrent.
Thousands of volunteers must be recruited immediately, armed and trained for the next disruptions that are heating up on the line.
There is no time to wait until after the election.
The police must be thickened and a target of 50,000 police officers set within three years.
Must replace the doctrine of warfare with the police, they do not know what to do.
The small minority of Arabs who are like enemies for all intents and purposes - must be suppressed with an iron fist.
The rest of the Arabs will thank us.
quietly.
A raging vehicle is immediately towed.
A weapon in a person's hand leads to its elimination instead of a hovercraft.
Student demonstrates with Palestinian flag - home.
It is possible to return the country to a good life.
Power now - peace afterwards.
Holiday
Lag B'Omer was fun this year. Thick smoke did not cover the city, did not penetrate houses, did not create a thick black blanket that remained until the next morning. Gone, every fire that one ignites smokes for the other in the living room.Both for both local and global environmental reasons, lighting tens of thousands of bonfires in one evening is an undesirable thing.
Some say - this is the job of the crooked leftists, who suck at any custom that has joy with it.
Just two weeks ago, they managed to intercept the fireworks of Independence Day in flight, and here - the bonfires also went, which really caused a lot of fun for children and youth.
And I, as a straight-nosed right-winger, who has worked for years to eliminate fireworks and bonfires, say - the world is moving forward, and it's not a matter of right and left.
Any custom that is not from the Torah, that over the years turns out to be no longer appropriate, that there are many people who are materially harmed by it, not a modern pampering injury, but something that is difficult to deal with - any such custom needs to be replaced with something else.
Both fireworks and bonfires are holiday customs of the "severe environmental damage" type.
In my eyes it can not be that a people celebrates its holidays by harming the planet and its most elite people, who have given their lives for its protection.
This is unlikely.
Okay, we once did not know and lit bonfires the height of a three-story building, but today, with global warming, with the understanding that materials thrown into the fire settle in our lungs and mature into cancer a decade later, with the vandalism this holiday encourages and property offenses against supermarkets looting their carts and contractors We understood and started a rehab process, and it's good that way.
At the same time, a public committee should be set up, headed by me, to examine alternatives to problematic holiday customs and to create new customs, adapted to the period, preferably in a dedicated application, "And you rejoiced in your holidays," which I am developing in my joy labs in Givat Issachar right now.
Harini already announces that we will also discuss when donuts can be marketed before Hanukkah, we will examine the custom of the villages, we will consider abolishing the connection between Shavuot and dairy products and returning it to its source, a wheat harvest holiday, and of course - we will take over the Purim explosives.
There were no explosives in the lily.
There will not be here either.
A real holiday is a holiday that does not hurt anyone, that everyone is happy about, including the world and all its creatures.
How nice that precisely in our time we get to see such changes.
Reason for celebration.
Turn on the fireworks!
strawberry
A purple stain appeared on the porch floor.
After a day, five more appeared.
I have known.
The strawberry season has begun, and the neighbors' tree is bearing fruit.
I hurried down the street, to see the truth, and here - the magnificent mulberry tree, half in the neighbors' yard and half above the sidewalk, was covered with thousands of purple, large, sweet and delicious strawberries for glory.
Like me, the fruit bats also felt this fruit burst, which is the meaning of the stains on the porch.
Bats and strawberries it's just like football fans and black kernels.
Put in the mouth, separate the good part from the shell in a complex linguistic action, then spit out the leftovers - no matter where.
On the grandstand, on the porch of Sahbak.
May they have health, they have been here before.
I came to terms with the neighbors, who thanked me for wanting to pick from their strawberries, which quickly turn from a blessing into a curse, covering the yard, the front of the house and the street with red sticky mash, which there is no way to deal with except waiting for the end of the short season. .
This is how it is every year, but this year there is an explosion of fruit on lots of types of trees because of the perfect winter, which included both a fair amount of precipitation and some cold waves needed for the deciduous fruit trees.
In short, I took a huge mat and spread it out under the tree.
The girls and I took broomsticks, which until recently were used to routinely train the sticks in the morning program, and since then orphans have been standing in the yard waiting for something interesting to happen to them, hitting the tree branches with decent punches.
Purple rain fell on us, on our heads, our clothes, our surroundings, and also on the mat.
Lots of strawberries, hundreds in every stroke.
Really picking strawberries.
We collected the loot, transferred it to our washing plant in a tub of laundry that changed a light blue color to dirty, dried it, packed it in half-pound bags and hopped it into the freezer.
Most of our freezer is now occupied by frozen strawberries, used for my smoothie industry, which feed me every morning as a perfect breakfast.
The strawberries replace the frozen purple blueberries I use regularly, because dark purple fruits are the best health gift for our body, and stand at the top of the table of foods that are beneficial to man.
So before the season ends, and before the bats eliminate everything, find yourself a tree like this and give it some good punches.
He will reward you with fruit with the taste of the sweet Land of Israel, without limit.
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