In the News (cursorinfo): “‘The Middle East has plunged into chaos, Europe is falling apart, the political situation in the US is poor. The only stable place in the world – the State of Israel’ – so wrote to me last week, one of the most experienced and well-known employees of the State Department in Washington, a renowned expert on the Middle East. …

“Stability, of course, is a quite relative concept. However, an American observer, came to a similar conclusion; see the following picture: despite all the problems of the coalition government in Jerusalem, despite the lamentations of the parliamentary opposition, Israel has successfully overcome challenges in his way. At least it has a flourishing foreign policy. …

“Strengthening relations with India, China, Japan and other Central Asian countries is a major foreign policy achievement of Israeli diplomacy. In addition, Israel is developing its relations with the countries with which it does not have formal diplomatic relations – in areas such as the fight against terror, modern technology, science and economics. An important aspect of the present government’s foreign policy doctrine is a correlation between the interests of Israel and the events occurring in the world around us. For example, the Iranian threat and the threat posed by the Islamic State of Israel brings together a number of Arab states. Unlike past years, when various processes in the Middle East took place as a result of the intervention of the United States, now we are talking about the coordination of interests between the regional players.

“The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is no longer the main theme that occupies the leaders of Sunni Arab states. But they can not completely ignore the problem.Therefore, one should not expect that formal diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia will be concluded soon. However, Israel may use informal relations with these countries in order to promote a solution to the Palestinian problem.

“As for Europe, it is hoped that the aggravation of the internal problems of the continent, at least to some degree make more moderate insistence of the EU to promote the use of meaningless initiatives, such as the one that the French government pushed. Unfortunately, Europe does not understand the real problems of the Middle East, which are a threat not only to the region but also to itself.”

My Comment: Unfortunately this situation will soon be over and no one will buy any products made in Israel anymore. If the Jews do not begin to engage in their own unity, demonstrating an example of an integral society for the whole world, the world will bare its teeth to them!
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In the News (Project Syndicate): “Nowhere is freshwater scarcer than in the Arab world. The region is home to most of the world’s poorest states or territories in terms of water resources, including Bahrain, Djibouti, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. This shortage – exacerbated by exploding populations, depletion and degradation of natural ecosystems, and popular discontent – is casting a shadow over these countries’ future.

“There is no shortage of challenges facing the Arab world. Given that many Arab states are modern constructs invented by departing colonial powers, and therefore lack cohesive historical identities, their state structures often lack strong foundations. Add to that external and internal pressures – including from surging Islamism, civil wars, and mass migration from conflict zones – and the future of several Arab countries appears uncertain.

“What few seem to recognize is how water scarcity contributes to this cycle of violence. One key trigger of the Arab Spring uprisings – rising food prices – was directly connected to the region’s worsening water crisis. Water also fuels tensions between countries. Saudi Arabia and Jordan, for example, are engaged in a silent race to pump the al-Disi aquifer, which they share.

“Water can even be wielded as a weapon. In Syria, the Islamic State has seized control of the upstream basins of the two main rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates. The fact that nearly half of all Arabs depend on freshwater inflows from non-Arab countries, including Turkey and the upstream states on the Nile River, may serve to exacerbate water insecurity further.

“Sky-high fertility rates are another source of stress. According to a United Nations report, average annual water availability in the Arab world could fall to 460 cubic meters per capita – less than half the water-poverty threshold of 1,000 cubic meters. In this scenario, water extraction will become even more unsustainable than it already is, with already-limited stores depleted faster than ever – a situation that could fuel further turmoil. …

“In short, the Arab world is increasingly trapped in a vicious cycle. Environmental, demographic, and economic pressures aggravate water scarcity, and the resulting unemployment and insecurity fuels social unrest, political turmoil, and extremism. Governments respond with increased subsidies on water and other resources, deepening the environmental challenges that exacerbate scarcity and lead to unrest. …

“But, in order to break the cycle of violence and insecurity, all countries will ultimately have to step up to improve water management and protect ecosystems. Otherwise, their water woes – along with internal unrest – will only worsen.”

My Comment: The overall degradation of the region can only be stopped by the spread of the good forces of the Surrounding Light (Ohr Makif) as a result of the Israeli’s efforts to unite above egoism. Then in the countries around Israel, a new level of thinking and a new approach to a solution to all problems will be revealed.
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In the News (Wall Street Journal): “Across 25 of the world’s advanced economies, about two-thirds of the population—more than half a billion people—earn the same as or less than their peers did a decade ago.

“Between 540 million and 580 million people in 2014 had lower or stagnant incomes than similarly situated people in 2005, according to a new study from the McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of the global consulting firm McKinsey & Co. The finding presents a break from the trend in advanced economies during the post-World War II era when, throughout twists and turns, most families ended up improving on the standard of living of their predecessors.

“‘Prior to the financial crisis, all but 2% of people in the Western world ended up better off than people like them 10 years ago,’ said Richard Dobbs, a McKinsey senior partner and one of the report’s authors. ‘But the world changes when you get a cohort of people who are no longer advancing.’

“The study highlights the extent of the fallout from the financial bubble and global crisis it left behind. Incomes a decade ago were boosted by that unsustainable bubble, and the ensuing financial crisis plunged the global economy into a recession from which it has yet to fully recover.

“The damage helps explain why many voters are rejecting the established political order, as seen in the U.K.’s vote to exit the European Union, in the embrace of nationalist political parties, or the hunger for candidates removed from the political establishment as seen in the Republican and Democratic presidential races in the U.S.

“McKinsey surveyed households in the U.K., France and the U.S. In these countries, 30% to 40% of people said their incomes hadn’t advanced, indicating that even if transfers and taxes have allowed some families to improve statistically, many still yearn for higher incomes. These households expressed sharply negative views about trade and immigration. …

“The report highlights that one consequence, if these current trends aren’t reversed, is that ‘today’s younger generation is at risk of ending up poorer than their parents.’ …

“With slow economic growth, and potential disruptions from the aging of the workforce and workplace automation, McKinsey cautioned these trends could continue in the decade ahead, and that most households in advanced economies could experience another a decade of stagnation.

My Comment: We have passed the point of growth, and for the egoistic society things will never be better again.

We should understand that our development is according to the plan of nature, the Creator, and the only thing we can do is to examine it (through the wisdom of Kabbalah) and to fulfill it by the path of Achishena, I shall hasten it, before it forces us to fulfill it by the path of Beito, in its time, through great afflictions such as wars, terror, disasters, diseases, etc.
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In the News (rg-rb.de): “More and more young Europeans choose to live a life not burdened with work or education. …

“The last ten years has seriously changed the employment structure among the European youth. It would seem that the economic meltdown hit the inefficient staff, which, in turn, paves the way for the young and “unspoiled” to be fed at all times. However, psychological factors seem to have entered the game associated with the populist promises of a number of European governments.Social support almost provides a complete nursery for students who do not want to work, but are not in a hurry to continue their education, leading to the fact that their numbers have grown significantly in almost all the countries of Southern Europe.

“Of course, like all adult citizens, they have the appropriate rights to benefits . The problem is that the availability of such a way of life, according to some experts, has led to the fact that the new generation of Europeans, which should enter the labor market or continue their studies, increasingly, after finishing or leaving high school, choose a third way – ‘social assistance’ from which, perhaps, they will never peel away from.

“So in Italy among the population aged 20-24 years, the number who do not want to work or study in the last decade has increased by 10% to 31%, a record since the post-war devastation. The increase in the number of unemployed young people in Greece and Spain, are almost as much, reaching respectively 26 and 22%. The top five in thess not very joyful statistics are Cyprus, Ireland and Croatia. …

“Perhaps the only exception was Germany, where the number of persons in this category in the last ten years decreased by 6 % – 9%.”

My Comment: The problem is that every year there is a need for fewer workers. We need to move toward work on unification, a new social work. We have a training program. This is what our courses are.
[192918]

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Question: You travel a lot all over the country and meet different people. You get up early in the morning, actually at midnight or 1 a.m. Isn’t that like self-abuse?

Answer: I live beyond time and don’t feel it. I don’t feel whether it is daytime, nighttime, or morning. I live by my internal feelings and cannot live differently. When I meet people I hope that I am able to “shake” them and that we can find a common language and convey our views to one another, our common suffering, doubts, and hopes.

I have no other choice. I am trying to do everything in my power. I hope that it will help them find the way to the truth and thus improve their lives We are in a very interesting phase of our development now. This is the tipping point in which we transcend to a new dimension, to a new level. It’s like a new spiritual birth.

Incidentally, the meaning of the word “crisis” is birth in Greek; therefore, everything we undergo is our rebirth. Humanity gradually acquires new levels of consciousness and understanding of what is happening.

I truly hope that being in contact with these people will not be in vain and that something of me will enter them, not even verbally, but emotionally, in a natural direct manner while communicating with them. It is very important. Then they will begin to advance toward their spiritual birth.

Question: The desire of a pregnant woman is to have a baby, but is there also the desire of the child to come into the world?

Answer: The baby also has to work seriously. He has to break out of the darkness of the womb that becomes hostile for him, pushing him out. Moreover, he also has to break through with his head first.

The “midwives” who receive the spiritual baby is us, those Kabbalists who show him how he should come out into the world and help deliver him. Kabbalists simultaneously influence both the upper Partzuf, the upper structure that gives birth to the person’s soul, and the person himself, by showing him how he should break free of the captivity of this world.
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From KabTV’s “News with Michael Laitman” 9/5/16

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In the News (VestiFinance): “The wave of globalization that has swept the world a few years ago, has now changed its direction. And this is very important. This is closely linked with the state of the world economy and the politics of Western countries.

“Globalization has reached the maximum level, and in some areas is declining. …

“Globalization no longer leads to the growth of the world economy. …

“The slowdown of globalization is partly due to the fact that many opportunities have if not disappeared completely, at least have drastically been reduced. …

“The growth of xenophobic attitudes and trade slowdown – are factors that are likely to lead to a decrease in foreign direct investment growth.

“Political measures support globalization less. In the US, this is particularly noticeable, as it is in the midst of the presidential election campaigns. …

“All of the important representatives of the Western world, it seems, no longer believe that trade growth will yield profit. …

“Globalization has slowed. Maybe the reverse process is starting? Many analysts believe that, yes, it is. …

“Globalization should not be a scapegoat, the culprit for all the troubles of our time, experts say.

“Nevertheless, at the moment, the processes of globalization stalled, while there is a chance that it will start the reverse processes in the global economy.

“A stimulation of globalization requires different internal and external measures, other than those that applied in the past.

“The future of globalization depends on the skilful and wise leadership.”

My Comment: Globalization requires a new basis of a united society above all the factors that divide it, a unified basis of nations and states. This is not a philosophy, but the requirement of nature, which means that the natural objective evolution of human society has brought us to acknowledge the need to become one unified society.

We cannot withdraw from here, because this is the law of nature and if we don’t keep it, it will lead to troubles and disasters.
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In the News (inosmi.ru): “Europe – this is not a monolith, but a conglomerate. Being European – means to take care of the fragments, of which we as a nation make a huge and amazing European mosaic. Many of these pieces have a national pan-European roots. That is why Europe must be united.

“It is well known to anyone who has a basic knowledge of geology, conglomerates do not break. Their components are held by a common binder. The binder of European civilization – a shared history, common values and similar institutions whose origins lie in antiquity, Christianity and the Enlightenment.”

My Comment: When we speak about unity in our world, we think that this will lead to the obliteration of individuality and to the disappearance of nations, people, races, religions, and other individual differences between us.

However, this opinion arises in us because we wish to solve the problem of unity on the same level as today’s disagreements.

Kabbalah offers a different solution: unity should take place above our egoism, without affecting our corporeal differences but only nullifying their egoistic use. As Baal HaSulam writes, we have no right to destroy the smallest distinctive features of each individual and of each nation, because this is what gives us strength and power in the fusion of differences.
[191107]

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Question: Who is the dissemination of the method of unity meant for?

Answer: Since our egoism has reached its complete development in the process of evolution, we are in a crisis with nature that surrounds us. Nature is single and integrated while we are egoists, detached from one another and divided, and so we are opposite from nature.

This leads to a crisis in many aspects of life including the ecology and society. Nature might just omit us out of its system if we don’t reach a state of balance with it. The wisdom of Kabbalah tells us about it in a much simpler way. Love thy friend as thyself is the main law of nature, and it is even simpler to yearn for unity. This is what we explain to people.
[193265]

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In the News (Project Syndicate): “The United Kingdom’s narrow vote to leave the European Union had specific British causes. And yet it is also the proverbial canary in the coalmine, signaling a broad populist/nationalist backlash – at least in advanced economies – against globalization, free trade, offshoring, labor migration, market-oriented policies, supranational authorities, and even technological change.

“All of these trends reduce wages and employment for low-skill workers in labor-scarce and capital-rich advanced economies, and raise them in labor-abundant emerging economies. Consumers in advanced economies benefit from the reduction in prices of traded goods; but low and even some medium-skill workers lose income as their equilibrium wages fall and their jobs are threatened.

“In the ‘Brexit’ vote, the fault lines were clear: rich versus poor, gainers versus losers from trade/globalization, skilled versus unskilled, educated versus less educated, young versus old, urban versus rural, and diverse versus more homogenous communities. The same fault lines are appearing in other advanced economies, including the United States and continental Europe.”

My Comment: It will be necessary to reorganize society: to gradually reduce consumption and production to reasonable limits. The masses of people who are freed up from working in the old factories must be directed toward factories of re-educating people. We need to design and develop “new” people.

This must be the product of these new factories. A corrected person works on himself; he corrects the system of relationships between egoistic people. This is the most fruitful, useful, necessary, and vital work in the world. Its result will be that all of humanity will attain an eternal and perfect life.
[192034]

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In the News (inopressa.ru): “‘If the refugee deal falls through with Turkey, we should expect a second wave of migration. And if in the beginning economists saw the mass migration as opportunities for the economy, their forecasts are now the opposite,’ writes Die Welt.

“None other than top managers and economists associated the influx of migrants with optimistic hopes. ‘People seeking protection in Germany will solve pressing problems in the country,’ they assured they German economic elite.

“Refugees would become the necessary labor force capable of maintaining the German economic ‘miracle.’ In addition, experts predicted, the young workers could be the answer to the demographic crisis threatening the nation.

“According to the survey, conducted jointly by Die Welt and consulting company Roland Berger, among first and second tier company managers, 75% of the respondents say that the flow of migrants, with an intensity comparable to last year, will become an economic burden for the country. …

“Leading economists and top managers have been forced to admit in recent months that the lion’s share of the refugees will not be backup for the labor market in Germany in the short or medium term. …

“According to IMF experts, the positive effect of the influx of refugees is expected only in the event that the applicants for refugee status would engage in a rapid process of integration. Otherwise, costs will increase and inevitably lead to protests among the population.”

My Comment: Reception should begin precisely with cultural integration, bringing people together, connecting people, which was not understood even when establishing the EU. So the problem is the same. The economists believe that it is possible to fill the labor market with machines, not people.

But the refugees have their own psychology; it defines their difference from the local population, separating them with a “wall” of misunderstanding. There is only one possible way: building a bridge of communication, connection, above the lack of understanding and even despite it. Only the wisdom of Kabbalah teaches the construction of a connection like this!
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