In a letter to the Attorney General, the Gush Shalom movement asked to disband immediately the so-called “City Guard” at Carmiel in the Galilee, which is actually a racist extreme right militia, and to launch an investigation against Deputy Mayor Oren Milstein who founded this body, as well as against police officials who helped in … Read more
WHICH IS the real Netanyahu? Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the US or from his coalition partners? The tricky Likud chief, who is afraid that Avigdor Ivett Lieberman might succeed in pushing him towards … Read more
This week Israel’s security forces practiced the putting down of mass demonstrations and protests among Israel’s Arab citizens and their imprisonment in a large detention camp to be established at Golani Junction in Galilee. The exercise was based on a scenario of the riots being provoked by implementation of Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for “an exchange … Read more
Golda believedThat timeWorks for us.The result:The Yom KippurDisaster.Netanyahu believesThat timeIs workingFor us.The result :The nextDisaster. Ad published in Haaretz, October 8, 2010 – in reaction to new Yom Kippur War revelations
EHUD OLMERT raised his hands before his face, two fingertips almost touching: “We were that close!” He was talking about the negotiation he had conducted personally with Mahmoud Abbas, just before he himself was forced to vacate the Prime Minister’s office. That was the climax of the speech he made last week at a meeting … Read more
Both were put in jail Tuesday for resisting deportation, Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Maguire being stopped at Ben Gurion Airport; Dr. Edith Lutz at sea, on the way to Gaza on the Jewish Boat. After peace sailor Luzt was convinced that the Israelis who had been on the boat with her got safely … Read more
The Tel Aviv-based Association of Physicians for Human Rights has won this year’s Alternative Nobel Prize (Right Livelihood). It will be awarded in a ceremony to be held in the Swedish Parliament building on December 6 this year – four days before the official Nobel Prize awarding ceremony. The prize committee noted especially the association’s … Read more
AgainstThe whole worldThe bulldozersAre startingTo buildIn the settlements –And to digA graveFor Israel. Ad published in Haaretz, October 1, 2010
The Jewish Peace Boat, sailing today, Sept. 26, from Cyprus in the direction of Gaza, is a reminder of the isolation which we in Israel bring upon ourselves. A country bound upon conquest and occupation, whose government is hostage to extremist settlers, is increasingly losing also the support of world Jewry. Gush Shalom, the Israeli … Read more
SURFING THE television channels, I came across an interview with the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi on an American network (Fox – would you believe it). “My grandfather told us to love the enemy even while fighting him,” he said, “he fought against the British resolutely, but loved the British.” (I quote from memory.) My immediate … Read more