Hasmotrich says in the recording - "Do you think a traditional Spaniard cares about gays? His grandmother cares. Do you think he cares that I'm against them?"
I have news for Ra'an Homophobia. Homosexuals are also interesting to my grandmother. I am hetero, I don't care at all what people who are not me do in their beds, in their clubs, in their families. But I actually care a lot that he is against them. Because since he and MK Avi Maoz won In a ruling power, something quickly changed in society.
The hatred of gays erupted like a murky waterfall under a thin lid that kept it imprisoned, and from all over the country there are reports of an avalanche in relation to LGBT people. Here this week in a middle school somewhere, a student proposed that the topic of the class debate be "death to gays". And behold, it was a miracle, all the students sided with the position This terminal, and the arguments in their mouths were straight from the website of the Noam party, with the use of the same words and the same formulations written there.
And as for that traditional Spaniard that gays interest his grandmother - this is true, until his son comes out of the closet, or he himself discovers that he is attracted to members of his own sex, or his wife suddenly moves in with someone who has captured her heart.
No one is protected, no sociological or religious or sectarian definition is immune to LGBT people; and when the issue surprises a person in his own home and he is exposed to the level of untreated hatred towards people, whose whole sin is that they want to live according to the cards dealt to them by the creator of the world and his leader, then it is interesting The grandmother, the grandfather, and the whole family.
The issue is not at all an attitude towards gays but an attitude towards human beings.
all human beings.
In Israeli society, in which hatred has become a built-in part, unfortunately, people are only looking for people who can be hated with all their might without anyone noticing.
For example, ultra-Orthodox, Arabs, LGBT people. In recent years, when an effort was made to normalize the
Homosexuality, it seemed that hating a gay just because he is one became illegitimate.
And Smotrich and Abi Maoz came, and like a wave that came and flattened the palace with sand, they washed away all the dreams of an inclusive and accepting society, and once again the hatred surfaced, like the sewage discharged into the sea in winter.
And what will happen now?
Religious and traditional gays will stay in closets, and marry unsuspecting women, and build homes based on fraud, and live a miserable life of concealment, lies, betrayal, and good women will not understand why they are unwanted, and children will grow up in cold and distant homes.
Well, my grandmother is interested.
She was a woman who cared about people.
turbines
While the High Court brawl is raging, this week the respected institution ruled on a matter you may not have heard of. Residents living in settlements on Mount Amsha, Yatir Forest, petitioned the High Court against the intention to erect wind turbines at the height of Azrieli in front of their faces.
These huge turbines, which generate electricity when there is wind, have a few small problems.
One, they are big.
every.
They take over the landscape, and if this is the largest forest in the country, I think trees are more beautiful than turbines.
in my opinion
The second problem is that turbines sometimes start fires around them, as boiling oil flies from the bearings and ignites the surroundings.
In the heart of a forest on the border of the desert... I don't know, sounds borderline to me.
There is another problem, we will mark it as Exhibit C.
Yatir Forest is a rest stop for the birds passing over the country during the migration seasons.
All over the world the turbines kill winged animals, and putting them on the path where millions of birds pass sounds to me like something invented by a butcher skilled in disassembling poultry.
Oh, and there are the people.
These turbines are supposed to be built 440 meters away from the residents' houses.
Nowhere in the world are girls allowed to be so close, because when the wings rotate, there are flickers of light into the eyes, as well as endless noise, both at audible frequencies and at low frequencies that the ear cannot hear, as it were, but deeply affect the health of the neighbors.
Studies around the world show a connection between them to the appearance of heart disease and blood pressure, severe sleep disorders, fatigue, loss of balance, hearing impairment, distraction, attention difficulties, nerves in general.
The incessant noise drives the whole system crazy.
And we are talking here about three tiny settlements, where people went to live in order to live in their own peace, and they are pushing 150-meter facilities that move around.
Say electricity.
I will say - not enough for all the trouble.
It is already clear today that in our wind-poor country, turbines will provide almost nothing, maybe a percentage or something of the electricity consumption, at an unbearable environmental and human cost.
No national interest.
Energy Minister Steinitz admitted this at the time.
What is good for Denmark is not good here.
But profit considerations disguise themselves as green considerations, and money tramples the forest, kills birds, drives people crazy.
And what did the High Court rule? Justice for the little man? For the weak citizen against the system? To win a quiet life? God forbid. The High Court ruled in favor of the turbine.
So don't tell me it doesn't need to be fixed, and don't tell me the defenders of the weak.
The court does not intervene when it is necessary and possible, and intervenes when it is not necessary and impossible.
And the turbines will be built, and the residents will leave, and the birds will die, and the forest will be cut down, and the Supreme Court will continue to think it knows best.
good for people?
Wind turbines in the Golan Heights, photo: Genie Agency
plankton
I'm waiting for a friend who should arrive at half past eight.
He always comes on time.
It's already nine.
is nothing.
Suddenly I receive a picture on WhatsApp from him of a bicycle thrown on the sidewalk, someone lying next to it and next to it the incriminating box - a light blue box from Walt.
There is no need to exaggerate, but the friend exaggerates nonetheless.
He drove through a completely green intersection, and the messenger just flew red into his hood, and now he has to wait until the police come, and the details become clear, and the important meeting in which we were supposed to discuss the variety of national issues at hand and reach decisions went on.
The messenger got away with it, but it doesn't leave my mind, because several times a day I encounter near-accident situations with Walt and Yango's messengers and all the back box carriers.
I can understand them, for their quickness and livelihood, and spending a lot of time on the road creates a kind of imperviousness to danger, and it seems that if they start fast enough, they will always precede the disaster that threatens to devour their cards.
And I ask myself: if God forbid I hurt one of these and shorten his life, how bad should I feel?
When someone does not guard the gift of his life as a precious treasure and does almost anything to get hurt, should I be tormented by my conscience for the rest of my life because I, God forbid, took a life or seriously disrupted it?
Illustration: Yehuda Nuni, Nuni-art.com,
The road rule to the sea.
The buses are the whales, sailors, the trucks are the big sharks, predators, the privateers are the bream, the halibut, the locus, the moser, the plamid, looking for an opportunity to attack, the scooters are the schools of sardines, dozens at each traffic light, and the couriers on bicycles are the plankton, they are everywhere, and they are bottom Food chain.
Everyone can eat them.
Each one is too small to count, but together they are the infrastructure of nutrition in the sea.
Even on land, these messengers became the basis of the nutrition of offices and homes in the big city.
But the profession and the form of employment attract people without any traffic awareness, with a clear death wish and zero thought about the next meter.
So where does that put me?
I put a camera in the car, so that if God forbid it happens, I can prove that I was driving reasonably.
As someone who once hit a rider, not my fault, and was left disabled for the rest of his life, I tell you - no matter how much his fault it is, it goes with me for the rest of my life, in a wheelchair.
drive weak
Until Walt takes responsibility for their employees, don't kill the messenger, it will kill you.
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