TO SUM up the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in one word: kitsch.To sum up the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in two words: wonderful kitsch. HONEST DISCLOSURE: I am an Anglophile. At the age of 15 I started working for an Oxford-educated lawyer. At the office only English was spoken. So I … Read more
“HE TALKS Zionism,” used to be a very derogatory comment when I was young. It meant that some elderly functionary had come to waste our time with a boring speech consisting largely of empty phrases. That was before the foundation of the State of Israel. Since then, the term Zionism has been elevated to the … Read more
“HE TALKS Zionism,” used to be a very derogatory comment when I was young. It meant that some elderly functionary had come to waste our time with a boring speech consisting largely of empty phrases. That was before the foundation of the State of Israel. Since then, the term Zionism has been elevated to the … Read more
WHATEVER IS happening to the Israeli social protest movement?Good question. It is not only being asked abroad, but in Israel, too. Last year the movement reached its peak in a giant demonstration. Hundreds of thousands marched in Tel Aviv. The government did what governments do in such situations: it appointed a commission, headed by a … Read more
WHATEVER IS happening to the Israeli social protest movement?Good question. It is not only being asked abroad, but in Israel, too. Last year the movement reached its peak in a giant demonstration. Hundreds of thousands marched in Tel Aviv. The government did what governments do in such situations: it appointed a commission, headed by a … Read more
TWO FORMER Prime Ministers of Israel are in the news these days. They represent two of the many faces of Israel.They also raise a universal question: which is preferable – an honest fanatic or a corrupt pragmatist? YITZHAK SHAMIR died two weeks ago and was buried in the cemetery of the “Great of the Nation” … Read more
TWO FORMER Prime Ministers of Israel are in the news these days. They represent two of the many faces of Israel.They also raise a universal question: which is preferable – an honest fanatic or a corrupt pragmatist? YITZHAK SHAMIR died two weeks ago and was buried in the cemetery of the “Great of the Nation” … Read more
FOR ME, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times.It was a simple logical conclusion. First, a thorough medical examination in the French military hospital where he died did not find any cause for his … Read more
FOR ME, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it several times.It was a simple logical conclusion. First, a thorough medical examination in the French military hospital where he died did not find any cause for his … Read more
Daphni Leef tells Uri Avnery how she broke her wrist DON’T TELL anyone, but in many a demonstration, when we were standing and proclaiming our message of peace and justice, knowing that not a word about it would appear in the media, I secretly wished for the police to come and beat us up. That … Read more