169 YEARS before the Gaza War, Heinrich Heine wrote a premonitory poem of 12 lines, under the title “To Edom”. The German-Jewish poet was talking about Germany, or perhaps all the nations of Christian Europe. This is what he wrote (in my rough translation): “For a thousand years and more / We have had an … Read more
photo gallery On the third Saturday of the war, while the Israeli cabinet was in session, discussing the cease-fire proposal, 3000 Israeli citizens marched from Tel-Aviv to Jaffa in protest against the war. The demonstrators marched from the Etzel Museum on the Tel-Aviv seashore to the center of Jaffa. A drizzle, the sound of drums … Read more
On the third Saturday of the war, while the Israeli cabinet was in session, discussing the cease-fire proposal, 3000 Israeli citizens marched from Tel-Aviv to Jaffa in protest against the war. The demonstrators marched from the Etzel Museum on the Tel-Aviv seashore to the center of Jaffa. A drizzle, the sound of drums and a … Read more
This warHas put theIsraeli-Palestinian conflictOn Obama’s tableOn his first dayIn office.We call upon him:Act at once to startVigorous negotiationsBetween theGovernment of IsraelAnd a unitedPalestinian leadershipThat will include Hamas,In order to achievePeace in 2009. Ad in Haaretz, January 16, 2009 Cheques to help us continue the ads to: Gush Shalom, P.O.Box 3322, Tel-Aviv 61033
“An attack of this kind violates all international conventions” said representatives of the Finnish Church. The clinic had supplied primary medical care to children. As part of the Israeli Air Force bombardments there was totally destroyed last Saturday in Gaza a children’s clinic created some years ago by Finn Church Aid jointly with other Scandinavian … Read more
NEARLY SEVENTY YEARS ago, in the course of World War II, a heinous crime was committed in the city of Leningrad. For more than a thousand days, a gang of extremists called “the Red Army” held the millions of the town’s inhabitants hostage and provoked retaliation from the German Wehrmacht from inside the population centers. … Read more
In 40 years of occupationWe have choked the Gaza StripAnd destroyed itsEssential infrastructures.Therefore, their livesDepend completelyOn the border crossingsDominated by Israel.As long as Gaza is chokedThere can be no cease-fire.Stopping the QassamsAnd opening the crossingsAre interconnected.We must choose:Permanent threats to SderotAnd AshkelonOr opening the crossingsBetween Gaza andThe outside world. Ad in Haaretz, January 9, 2009 … Read more
If the state of Israel turns its back upon the international community, which after long deliberations adopted a reasonable cease-fire resolution, the world for its part might turn its back on Israel and make it a pariah state. There are reasonable doubts for suspecting that the government’s refusal to accept a cease-fire derive, at least … Read more
The desperate refugees who lost everything had hoped that hiding in a school belonging to the UN would give them at least some kind of refuge and save their children. They did not know that even there a single shell would cut off dozens of lives in a single second. They did not know that … Read more
JUST AFTER MIDNIGHT, Aljazeera’s Arabic channel was reporting on events in Gaza. Suddenly the camera was pointing upwards towards the dark sky. The screen was pitch black. Nothing could be seen, but there was a sound to be heard: the noise of airplanes, a frightening, a terrifying droning. русский It was impossible not to think … Read more