Peace with the PalestiniansIs not a topicIn these elections.After all,Our politicians can live withOccasional flare-upsOn the Gaza border ,And don’t get excited byThe West Bank pressure cookerGaining steam. Published in “Haaretz”, October 26, 2012
Today, Wednesday, October 24th, CO Moriel Rothman will be sent to military jail for his decision to refuse service in the IDF, and after his request for a Conscience Committee was rejected without explanation. Moriel Rothman, a 23 year-old Jew who was born in Israel and raised in the US, returned to Israel last year … Read more
Elik Elhanan: excessive force was used against us, without any reasonElectric shocks by taser out of vengeful hatredA Greek MP was beaten by Shabak Security Service interrogators “I am now on my way home, but I keep thinking of my shipmates, my fellow activists from abroad who are still imprisoned under harsh conditions and undergo … Read more
Three Israelis among captured “Estelle”.Also on board: Members of Parliament from Sweden, Norway, Spain and Greece.Gush Shalom: A stupid show of force, expanding occupation to international waters in the Mediterranean “Even while the Prime Minister is considering bringing to his cabinet’s approval the report of Judge Edmond Levy, which asserts that the Palestinian territories are … Read more
THERE WAS this young Israeli who was captured by cannibals. They put him in the cooking pot and were about to light the fire, when he expressed one last wish: “Please box my ears!”When the cannibal chief obliged, the Israeli jumped up, leveled his Uzi and mowed down his captors. “If you had the Uzi … Read more
Route 443Leads from Tel Aviv to JerusalemThrough Occupied Territory.The Palestinian inhabitants,On whose land it was built,Are prevented fromUsing it.Suddenly, quite by surprise,Palestinian demonstratorsBlocked it.Why indeed? Published in “Haaretz”, October 19, 2012
SO WE have two election campaigns in the next three months – one in the USA and one in Israel. I don’t know which of them is more important for our lives.In many respects, the two elections are very different. But in some others, they are strikingly similar.It may be interesting to make some comparisons. … Read more
On the eveOf calling forNew elections,Netanyahu initiatedA new flare-upOn the Gaza border.Commentators agree:It would beTo Netanyahu’s advantageTo conduct electionsOn security issues. Published in “Haaretz”, October 12, 2012
MY FIRST reaction to Binyamin Netanyahu’s exhibition of comics at the UN General Assembly was shame.Shame that the supreme elected representative of my country would stoop to such a primitive rhetorical device, bordering on the childish. (One Israeli commentator suggested putting him on a rug with a lot of paper and Indian ink, and letting … Read more
Ehud BarakServed for yearsAs Netanyahu’sFig leaf.A miserableAnd unconvincingFig leaf -But now NetanyahuHas discardedIt too. Published in “Haaretz” – October 5, 2012