The police announced proudlyThe capture of theSettler-terrorist Ja’acov Teitel.The settler’s reaction:“He is a wild weed”.Two days later, the policeHelped a gang of settlersTo invade an Arab homeIn East JerusalemAnd throw the inhabitants out.These settlers and their helpers –Policemen, officers and ministers –All of them are Wild Weeds. Ad published in Haaretz, November 7, 2009
A YEAR before the Oslo agreement, I had a meeting with Yasser Arafat in Tunis. He was full of curiosity about Yitzhak Rabin, who had just been elected Prime Minister. I described him as well as I could and ended with the words: “He is as honest as a politician can be.” Arafat broke into … Read more
In a democratic country,The Minister of DefenseRepresents the civil authorityVis-à-vis the army.In Israel, the armyHas vetoed the appointmentOf a Commission of InquiryInto the harm done toGaza civilians.Minister of Defense BarakSaluted and went to deliverTo the governmentThe Order of the General Staff. Ad in Haaretz, Oct. 30, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads – … Read more
Almost everybody agrees that peace between the State of Israel and the State of Palestine is the only solution. All the relevant governments say so, including the government of Israel. Why, then, does it not happen? Why does it often look hopeless? For the simple reason that the government of Israel does not really want … Read more
Some ministers wantA sham investigation,Without defining responsibilityAnd without uncoveringThe army’s actions.That will not reduceThe pressure.What is needed is aState investigation committee,Headed by a Superior Court judge,To hear testimoniesFrom soldiers and Gaza residents,In public and in the presenceOf international observers.For the Israeli governmentThat is the lesser evil. Ad published in Haaretz, October 23, 2009
IT IS, of course, all the fault of Judge Richard Goldstone. He is to blame for it, as he is to blame for all the other ills that are befalling us now. He is to blame for the trouble we are having at the UN, both in New York and in Geneva. For the conspiracy … Read more
The Bedouin rights activist Nuri al Okbi, who over the past three years maintains a sit-in strike in a tent on the lands from which his tribe was expelled in 1951, will reach Tel Aviv on November 19, in order to hold the second of his monthly meetings with Jewish Israelis and with the media. … Read more
We must investigateThe suspectedGaza War crimes -Not because of the UN,Not for fear of Goldstone,But for our self-respectAnd for the futureOf Israel. Ad in Haaretz, Oct. 16, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads – and the campaigns – to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
YESTERDAY, OUR table celebrated with Ada Yonath. This “table” just had its 50th anniversary. It started by accident in “California”, the Café established at the time by Abie Nathan, who later became famous as the Peace Pilot. Afterwards, we met for many years at the legendary Artists’ Café Cassith. Since that place was closed down … Read more
President Obama does not yet deserve the Nobel Peace Prize. That he was himself the first to say so does not make it less true. On the Israeli-Palestinian track President Obama has on several occasions declared his consideration of the ending of the occupation and the creation of a Palestinian state as an American and … Read more