Even if it wants to, the Tirkel Commission can’t probe the real issues and the international friends of Dore Gold won’t bite. Gush Shalom prepares appeal to the Supreme Court. The Gush Shalom movement intends to petition the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, challenging the validity of the Netanyahu Government’s decision to establish the Tirkel Commission … Read more
If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed: What is the real aim of the Gaza Strip blockade? If the aim is to prevent the flow of arms into the Strip, why are only 100 … Read more
Which holy principleIs shared bothBy the GovernmentAnd the “opposition”?“Soldiers must notBe interrogated!”How to call a regimeThat forbids criticismOf the military?It can haveMany names –Democracy is notOne of them Ad published in Haaretz, June 11, 2010
What took place at the Knesset House Committee had nothing to do with a democratic discussion or debate. The thuggish assault of Knesset members upon KM Hanin Zuabi. like the thuggish offensive of “Im Tirtzu” on The NewIsrael Fund, and like the attack of street thugs on Uri Avnery at Tel-Aviv’s Ibn Gvirol Street, is … Read more
ON THE high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured. The ship was brought into harbor, the passengers were taken off by force. The world saw them walking … Read more
The GazaBlockadeDoes notIsolateHamas.It isolatesIsrael. Ad published in Haaretz, June 4, 2010
RAHM EMANUEL is, so it seems, the American most hated by the leaders of Israel. He is considered the most dangerous opponent of the Netanyahu government in the White House. Behind closed doors, they shower him – if one is to believe the media – with anti-Semitic epithets. “Jewboy” is one of them. In Zionist … Read more
In Oslo,Israel undertookTo allowThe buildingOf a sea portIn Gaza.Instead, the Israeli navyHas been orderedTo stop by forceThe peace shipsOn their wayTo Gaza.17 years late,Israel must keepIts undertaking:To allow the openingOf Gaza port! Ad in Haaretz May 28, 2010
A LOCAL TV station told us this week about a group of Israelis who adhere to conspiracy theories. They believe that George W. Bush planned the destruction of the Twin Towers in order to further his wicked aims. They believe that the big pharmaceutical corporations spread the swine flue virus in order to sell their … Read more
ThoseWho preventedNoam ChomskyFrom enteringThe country –Aided and abettedThe worldwide campaignTo boycott theIsraeli universities. Ad in Haaretz May 21, 2010