An Eskimo comes to town and sees a piece of glass for the first time in his life. The glass looks tohim like ice. Ice is transparent, and so is glass. Ice can be chewed. So the Eskimo puts the glassin his mouth and starts to chew. This is quite logical behavior. It is a … Read more
A Hungarian Joke: During the June 1967 war, a Hungarian meets his friend. “Why do you look sohappy?” he asks. “I heard that the Israelis shot down six Soviet-made MiGs today,” his friendreplies. The next day, the friend looks even more jubilant. “The Israelis downed another eight MiGs,”he announces. On the third day, the friend … Read more
Strasbourg, 13 January 2004 Dear, Further to my intervention yesterday at the opening session of the European Parliament on thenew restrictions on visitors to the Palestinian Territories imposed by the IsraeliAuthorities, please, find attached the document concerned. Briefly, visitors to the West Bank and Gaza Strip are now required to apply for permission andobtain written … Read more
You really can’t rely on these Arabs. Take this fellow, Qaddafi. For decades he played the clown. The whole world laughed at him(except when he downed a French plane in Chad and the Pan-Am jet over Lockerbie.) His Libya was a”rogue state”, an international pariah. He was working on Weapons of Mass Destruction. TheAmericans hated … Read more
Would you believe it? The Israeli Labor Party has a political program. Like a top hat for a bum. Seems this program has been around for two months already. I just didn’t hear a thing about ituntil somebody took pity on me and faxed me a copy the other day. This is the Labor Party … Read more
Some years ago, when the jury for the annual Israel Prize announced its award to ProfessorYeshayahu Leibowitz, I decided to invite him to give a lecture to the Israeli Council forIsraeli-Palestinian Peace, the group that established the first contacts with the PLO. “I am ready to come,” he said, “on one condition: I shall speak … Read more
A weekend of demonstrations after the shooting of a peace activist. Direct action against the fence in Mas’ha, Qalqilya and Tel Aviv photo gallery Dan Shohat about the events that led to shooting of Gil Na’amati. “In the early afternoon today, in the middle of a direct,non-violent action against the Apartheid system of walls and … Read more
A weekend of demonstrations after the shooting of a peace activist. Direct action against the fence in Mas’ha, Qalqilya and Tel Aviv photo gallery Dan Shohat about the events that led to shooting of Gil Na’amati. “In the early afternoon today, in the middle of a direct,non-violent action against the Apartheid system of walls and … Read more
He read out the written text of his speech, word for word, without raising his eyes from thepage. It was vital for him to stick to the exact wording, since it was an encoded text. It is impossibleto decipher it without breaking the code. And it is impossible to break the code withoutknowing Ariel Sharon … Read more
The spectacle was disgusting. “Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, lestthe Lord see it, and it displeaseth Him, and He turn away His wrath from him!” Thus commandeththe ancient Jewish moral code (Proverbs, 24, 16). The writer of this warning knew, of course, that every … Read more