I loathe Binyamin Netanyahu, and therefore I hoped that he would be elected leader of theLikud. I am sorry that Sharon won the primary election instead. How’s that? After all, Netanyahu presented himself as a man of the extreme right and demandedto “expel” (the code-word for “kill”) Yasser Arafat. He is ready to fight to … Read more
To many Americans the Israeli/Palestinian issue is a complex and unsolvableone, plagued with propaganda from both sides and shrouded in the interestsof global politics. But the everyday reality of many Palestinians is onethat rarely has a contributory voice towards American opinion of the issue. Yesterday, my first day in Palestine, I met Lutfiya el-Sharif, her … Read more
To many Americans the Israeli/Palestinian issue is a complex and unsolvableone, plagued with propaganda from both sides and shrouded in the interestsof global politics. But the everyday reality of many Palestinians is onethat rarely has a contributory voice towards American opinion of the issue. Yesterday, my first day in Palestine, I met Lutfiya el-Sharif, her … Read more
Two families made homeless with further Israeli house demolition. A PNGO Information Clearinghouse Israeli forces shot dead a 24-year-old Palestinian, Jihad Muhammad MusallamAn-Natour in Askar refugee camp in Nablus early this morning. Jihad waswalking through the camp waking the inhabitants so they could eat before thedaily fast of the holy month of Ramadan began. According … Read more
Two families made homeless with further Israeli house demolition. A PNGO Information Clearinghouse Israeli forces shot dead a 24-year-old Palestinian, Jihad Muhammad MusallamAn-Natour in Askar refugee camp in Nablus early this morning. Jihad waswalking through the camp waking the inhabitants so they could eat before thedaily fast of the holy month of Ramadan began. According … Read more
1) Palestine: It’s HELL by John Reese2) Reinvaded Bethlehem by Kristen Ess3) This morning in Aida Refugee Camp by Kristen Ess Palestine: It’s HELL John Reese As I sit here in my office there are guns and explosions going off aroundme. Bethlehem is being re-re-re-re-invaded and more houses are, onceagain, threatened to be blown up … Read more
1) Palestine: It’s HELL by John Reese2) Reinvaded Bethlehem by Kristen Ess3) This morning in Aida Refugee Camp by Kristen Ess Palestine: It’s HELL John Reese As I sit here in my office there are guns and explosions going off aroundme. Bethlehem is being re-re-re-re-invaded and more houses are, onceagain, threatened to be blown up … Read more
It seems that a new wind is blowing in the country. This week I flew to Europe. On the way to the Airport, the taxi-driver told me: That’s it, thereis no hope left. We shall never have peace with the Palestinians. There is no one to talk with. Nocompromise is possible. The war will go … Read more
Since last Sunday, a question has been running around in my head and troubling my sleep: Whatinduced the young Palestinian, who broke into Kibbutz Metzer, to aim his weapon at a mother andher two little children and kill them? In war one does not kill children. That is a fundamental human instinct, common to all … Read more
I don’t know you personally. We have never talked to each other. But I have been following youractivities from afar – ever since, during the Lebanon war, you did something that impressed medeeply: you resigned your army post as a protest against Ariel Sharon’s mad adventure. Senior officers, who sacrifice their careers on a point … Read more