An Evening in Jounieh

DURING THE first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. In spite of the war raging in nearby Beirut, Jounieh was full of life. The Christian elite spent the day in the … Read more

More and more people start understanding

that there is no military solution…that there is no solution without talking to our neighbors, the Palestinians But, the suffering of the Sderot inhabitants will go on as long as the government of Israel doesn’t understand it. Months of brutal attacks and the killing of hundreds of the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip did not … Read more

In One Word: MASSACRE!

“THANK GOD for the American elections,” our ministers and generals sighed with relief.They were not rejoicing at the kick that the American people delivered to George W. Bush’s ass this week. They love Bush, after all.But more important than the humbling of Bush is the fact that the news from America pushed aside the terrible … Read more

Lovable Man

IN ITS original German form – Lieberman – the name means “lovable man”. It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.He is not lovable, neither in his personality nor in his views – and that is the understatement of the year.His personal lovability can be judged … Read more

Who is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?

AT THE height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate (“never was so much owed by so many to so few”), an official in charge of propaganda had a bright idea to raise morale. On the walls at the Royal Air Force bases a poster … Read more

A cynical Prime Minister

Devoid of values,Who has got usInto a superfluous warIn which hundreds were killed -Has invited theProphet of ethnic cleansingInto his government. The Labor PartyThat remainsin this governmentIs clinically dead.