Israelis and Palestinians walk together for Peace and Non-Violence in the Middle East!Hosted by Leading Leaders for Peace, today Friday March 28 at 11.00 (note change to summer time!)Starting at Redding Parking Lot, near the Port of Tel AvivContactRobie Peled 054-5661922Riad 054-2641725 System Message: ERROR/3 (<string>, line 7) Unexpected indentation. info@LeadingLeadersforPeace.com The time cannot be … Read more
THERE IS an old Chinese curse that says: “May you live in historic times!” (If there isn’t, there should be.) This week was a historic time. The Crimea seceded from Ukraine. Russia annexed it. A dangerous situation. No one knows how it will develop. AFTER MY last article about the Ukrainian crisis, I was flooded … Read more
Who is a Jew?An Israeli citizenCan’t be considered JewishWithout the Kosher certificateOf the Chief Rabbinate.- So said Ben Gurion.What is a Jewish state?The State of IsraelCan’t be considered JewishWithout the Kosher certificateOf President Abbas.- So says Netanyahu. Published in Ha’aretzMarch 21, 2014
SOMETHING VERY important happened this week in the most unlikely of places: the Knesset. On the agenda were three laws, one worse than the other. One was about “governance”. Its main provision raises the “electoral threshold” – i.e. the minimum an election list needs to enter the Knesset – from 2% to 3.25%. The obvious … Read more
50 high school studentsTold NetanyahuThat their conscienceDoes not allow themTo serveIn an occupation army.Happy the peopleThat has suchSons and daughters. Published in Ha’aretz, March 14, 2014
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else? HIS FATHER, an ultra-ultra-Rightist, once said about him that he is quite … Read more
“We have alreadyDone our part!”Said NetanyahuIn response toPresident Obama.No doubt:In settlement constructionNetanyahu has doneVery much indeed. Published in Ha’aretz – March 7,. 2014
IT IS the summer of 1941. Five youngsters – three young men and two young women – meet in a bar and spend a happy evening, flirting with each other, getting drunk, dancing forbidden foreign dances. They have grown up together in the same neighborhood of Berlin. It is a happy time. The war started … Read more
Naftali Bennet,A senior minister inThe Netanyahu cabinet,Advocates “Judaization”Of the Negev and GalileeAnd expresses “Zero tolerance”For the aspirationsOf Israel’s Arab citizens.Is this the shape of“The Jewish State”Which PalestiniansMust recognize? Published in Ha’aretz – February 28, 2014
IT HAS always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Bagatz is the Hebrew acronym for “High Court of Justice”, the Israeli equivalent of a constitutional court. It plays a very important role in Israeli public life. Having a ground-breaking Supreme Court decision named after you confers a … Read more