THE KILLING of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Muatasim was not a pretty sight. After seeing it once, I looked away when it was shown again and again on TV – literally ad nauseam. Commercial TV exists, of course, to make money for the tycoons by appealing to the basest instincts and tastes of the … Read more
Foreign Minister LiebermanCalled for the removalOf Mahmud Abbas.As always,He says openlyWhat Netayahu is thinking.A Palestinian leaderWho mobilizes without violenceWorld-wide supportFor a Palestinian StateConstitutes a dangerous threatTo our present government. Published in “Haaretz”, October 28,2011
THE MOST sensible – I almost wrote “the only sensible” – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He expected, of course, the usual answer: because one … Read more
The lesson fromThe prisoner exchange:When the goal is justAnd we struggle for itLong and hard -We can bendEven a NetanyahuAnd achieve what seemsImpossible! Published in “Haaretz”, October 21, 2011
ON YOM KIPPUR eve last week, when real Jews were praying for their lives, I sat on the seashore of Tel Aviv, thinking. I was thinking about our state, the State of Israel, in which I have, so to speak, a founder’s share. Will it endure? Will it be here in another 100 years? Or … Read more
To solveOur social problems -Israel must cutThe defense budget.To cutThe defense budget -Israel must turnTowards peace.To turnTowards peace -Israel must recognizeThe State of Palestine Published in “Haaretz” – October 14, 2011
AN OLD photo from World War I shows a company of German soldiers getting on the train on their way to the front. On the wall of the car somebody had scribbled: “viel Feind, viel Ehr’” (“The more enemies, the more Honor”.) In those days, at the very start of what was to be the … Read more
“THERE ARE situations in which a real patriot has no alternative but to be a traitor,” wrote the distinguished German journalist, the late Rudolf Augstein, in a review of one of my books in the late 1980s. “My Friend, the Enemy,” described, among other things, my meeting with Yasser Arafat. It was the first encounter … Read more
Brutally assaultedPalestinians and IsraeliPeace activists.Police was presentBut looked the other waySome of the attackersWere themselves policemenLiving in the settlement. Published in “Haaretz”, October 7, 2011
Police present at the scene did nothing while the activists were beaten and their cameras smashed Friday morning Israeli activists and Palestinians were attacked by settlers near the settlement of Anatot. The landowner of the plot to which the activists came in order to plant trees was also attacked by the settlers who severely wounded … Read more