photo gallery The Funding Prohibition Bill is aimed at peace and human rights orgs. Foreign right-wing extremist millionaires are not touched: Moskowitz can continue financing settler invasion of Palestinian neighborhoods; Adelson – continue maintaining a free daily newspaper, PM Netanyahu’s mouthpiece. “The bill to prohibit left-wing Israeli organizations from getting funding from foreign institutions, including … Read more
“YOU CAN lie to all of the people some of the time, and to some of the people all of the time, but you cannot lie to all of the people all of the time.” This slightly altered quotation from Abraham Lincoln has yet to be absorbed by Binyamin Netanyahu. He thinks it doesn’t apply … Read more
The government definesSettlement extensionas punishmentFor the Palestinians.Violent settlers fixTheir own “price tag”.The Knesset is busyEnacting anti-democratic laws.Thugs implement themOn the street.So who is“Delegitimizing” Israel? Published in “Haaretz”, November 11, 2011 Saturday 12.11, 7.30 pm, we will join the rally at the Rabin Square in Tel-Aviv, to commemorate a Prime Minister who died for peace and … Read more
EVERYBODY KNOWS the scene from school: a small boy quarrels with a bigger boy. “Hold me back!” he shouts to his comrades, “Before I break his bones!” Our government seems to be behaving in this way. Every day, via all channels, it shouts that it is going, any minute now, to break the bones of … Read more
With a majorityOf 107 against 14,Amid wild applause,UNESCO acceptedThe State of PalestineAs a full member.“Punishing” the PalestiniansOffends 107 countriesAnd isolates IsraelEven more. Published in “Haaretz”, November 4, 2011
The organizers of the action, denied entry to Israel in the “Fly-in” several months ago:”We have no intention to riot or confront, buses will be waiting to take us to Bethlehem” Gush Shalom: The government should allow the activists to visit the Palestinians A few days ago was held in Paris a large-scale meeting of … Read more
THE KILLING of Muammar Gaddafi and his son Muatasim was not a pretty sight. After seeing it once, I looked away when it was shown again and again on TV – literally ad nauseam. Commercial TV exists, of course, to make money for the tycoons by appealing to the basest instincts and tastes of the … Read more
Foreign Minister LiebermanCalled for the removalOf Mahmud Abbas.As always,He says openlyWhat Netayahu is thinking.A Palestinian leaderWho mobilizes without violenceWorld-wide supportFor a Palestinian StateConstitutes a dangerous threatTo our present government. Published in “Haaretz”, October 28,2011
THE MOST sensible – I almost wrote “the only sensible” – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He expected, of course, the usual answer: because one … Read more
The release of Palestinians prisoners could be part of building trust between the two peoples “Like every Israeli citizen today, I welcome Gilad Shalit with all my heart on his return home. I am happy for his parents, who have conducted such a dedicated and persistent, touched the heartstrings and moved the government and did … Read more