The settlers announce their intention to take over more Palestinians houses at the Sheikh Jarrah and Beit Hanina neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Gush Shalom: They can only proceed if the police facilitates the expulsion of the inhabitants from their homes. Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, warns that the settlers in East Jerusalem intend to … Read more
…or a “consolation prize” for not having gotten the permission In the beginning of the week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed in his attempt to get an American autorization for an attack on Iran, which might raise oil prizes and overthrow the world economy. At the end of the same week, he is setting the … Read more
The settlers announce their intention to take over more Palestinians houses at the Sheikh Jarrah and Beit Hanina neighborhoods in East Jerusalem. Gush Shalom: They can only proceed if the police facilitates the expulsion of the inhabitants from their homes. Gush Shalom, the Israeli Peace Bloc, warns that the settlers in East Jerusalem intend to … Read more
…or a “consolation prize” for not having gotten the permission In the beginning of the week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu failed in his attempt to get an American autorization for an attack on Iran, which might raise oil prizes and overthrow the world economy. At the end of the same week, he is setting the … Read more
“What have you learned in school today, my son?”“There was no school today. There is an emergency!”“And what have you learned from that, my son?” ACTUALLY, QUITE a lot. This week’s “round”, as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as formal as a religious ritual. It started with the assassination (or … Read more
“What have you learned in school today, my son?”“There was no school today. There is an emergency!”“And what have you learned from that, my son?” ACTUALLY, QUITE a lot. This week’s “round”, as the army likes to call it, followed a well-established pattern, as formal as a religious ritual. It started with the assassination (or … Read more
Killing a middle-level Palestinian leader –4 days’ total disruption of the daily life ofA million Israelis – 26 dead Palestinians –300 missiles shot on Israel – 17.5 millionShekels spent on interceptionsWASITWORTHWHILE? Published in “Haaretz”, March 16, 2012 Cheques, to help us continue the ads and the campaigns, to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033. Please, … Read more
ON THE face of it, it was a trivial incident. In the presence of the entire political and legal establishment, the liberal President of the Supreme Court, Dorit Beinisch, who has reached the age limit of 70, was replaced by the conservative Justice Asher Dan Grunis. At the end of the ceremony, the national anthem … Read more
Click for translation of Uri Avnery’s article which appeared in Hebrew in Haaretz, March 11
Netanyahu comparedThe Israelis of 2012To the Jews in AuschwitzIn 1944.A disgusting demagoguery,An insult to sovereign IsraelBy its own Prime Minister,A particularly cynicalExploitation of the Holocaust. Published in “Haaretz”, March 9, 2012