I was sad to hear about Kamala Harris and the student incident. Not because I’m worried about the support for Israel, but because I’m worried about the state of America.
Why the riots happened when Arab Israelis seem to be progressing towards better integration and a more comfortable state of coexistence? No one can say for sure, but a fast-spreading culture of violent crime is certainly a contributing factor.
What a fool I was. I could have written something else and saved that paragraph for this year. Instead, I’d write something slightly different: Remember the year when we thought the pandemic would be over by next year? I remember it, even though the time that has passed since the beginning of the pandemic is somewhat blurred.
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