EVERY TIME you think we have reached the limit, something else pops up and the limit moves. One might have thought that the Hitler-Mufti story was the absolute limit of craziness. But here comes Uri Ariel, and proves one wrong. Ariel’s cats top Netanyahu’s mufti. Ariel is a cabinet minister. Eh, minister for what? Almost … Read more
“There isNo securityIn this country!”Cried demonstratorsIn Rishon LetzionAfter the stabbings.Indeed. No securityWhen millionsLose all hopeTo get ridOf the occupation. Published in Haaretz – November 6, 2015
IT IS not very pleasant when serious people around the world – historians, psychiatrists, diplomats – ask themselves if my prime minister is completely sane. But this is happening now. And not only abroad. More and more people in Israel are asking themselves the same question. All this is the result of one event. But … Read more
Only oneWho believes thatWe shall always enjoyAbsolute superiorityCan calmly consider(Like Netanyahu)Living foreverBy the sword.Rabin hadMore understanding. Published in Haaretz – October 30, 2015
SOMETIMES, A small incident can pierce the darkness and reveal a frightening picture. This happened last Sunday in Beersheba, the capital of the Negev. The picture was frightening indeed. THE INCIDENT started as a routine attack, one of many we have become used to in recent weeks. Some call it “the Third Intifada”, some speak … Read more
Not by wallsNot by fencesNot by concrete blocks.Between West Jerusalem,Capital of Israel,And East Jerusalem,Capital of Palestine,There must beA border of peace. Tomorrow night, Sat. Oct. 24 at 19.30, we will join the protest march from Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square to the Defense Ministry, under the call “Stop the madness!” initiated by Peace Now and joined … Read more
Tel Aviv, October 21, 2015. Hundreds of people gathered today at the Levinsky Park to give a final farewell to Habtom Zarhum, killed because he did not have the right skin color, and because government ministers and “opposition” leaders urge the public to kill first and ask questions afterwards. Israeli citizens and African refugees cry … Read more
ISRAELI DEMOCRACY is sliding downwards. Sliding slowly, comfortably, but unmistakably. Sliding where? Everybody knows that: towards an ultra-nationalist, racist, religious society. Who is leading the ride? Why, the government, of course. This group of noisy nobodies which came to power at the last elections, led by Binyamin Netanyahu. Not really. Take all these big-mouthed little … Read more
For yearsThe “experts” said:”Not having peaceIs not terrible.It is possibleTo manageThe conflict.”They were wrong.It IS terrible. Tomorrow night, Sat., Oct. 17., we will join peace and human rights groups in a march through the streets of Jerusalem, with the call: “Standing together – not giving in to despair!”. Meeting point: 8.00 pm, Gan Hasus, Jerusalem. … Read more
I FIRST met Mahmoud Abbas in Tunis at the beginning of 1983. I knew that he was responsible for the Israel desk in the PLO leadership. Said Hamami and Issam Sartawi, the PLO delegates with whom I had been in permanent contact since 1974, told me that he was in charge. But he was not … Read more