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Escaping Forwards

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  THE GERMANS call it “die Flucht nach vorne” – escaping forwards. When the situation is desperate, attack! Instead of retreating, advance!When there is no way out, storm ahead! This method was successful in 1948. At the end of May, the Egyptian army was advancing on Tel Aviv. We – a very, very thin line … Read more

“Independence Night” at Afkikis

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.Indiscriminate destruction at Afkikis Village on Independence Night and the complaint followed by more of the same On the night between May 10 and 11 – Israeli Independence Day Eve, when youths danced in the streets of Israeli cities – soldiers descended upon the small village of Afkikis, near the settlement of Negohot. There, soldiers … Read more

The depiction of Bedouins as ‘nomads’ – a myth

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Report by Adam Keller on the session of the governmental Goldberg Commission, May 15 in Be’er Sheva re the situation of Bedouins – with testimonies by Nuri al-Okbi, Ibrahim al-Amur, Amos Gvirtz and Ya’akov Manor “The Bedouin population is being shamefully discriminated and brutally persecuted in its own home, on its land in the Negev” … Read more

With Friends Like These…

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LATELY WE are flooded with friends. The Great of the Earth, past and present, come here to flatter us, to fawn on us, to grovel at our feet. “God, save me from my friends, my enemies I can deal with myself!” says an old prayer. They disgust me. LET’S TAKE for example the German Chancellor, … Read more

MISSING

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The President of the US andOther world leaders and VIPsHave come to celebrateThe 60th anniversaryof the State of Israel.All of them togetherDo not make upFor the absence ofThe representative of theState of Palestine.Only when theFirst independence dayOf sovereign PalestineWill be celebrated,The future ofSovereign IsraelWill also be assured. Ad published in Haaretz, May 16, 2008

Racism at conference

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.In a letter to Attorney-General Menny Mazuz, Gush Shalom calls for an investigation against settler rabbis Zalman Melamed, Dov Lior and Yisrael Samet, on charges of racist incitement. The three rabbis recently spoke at a conference of the extreme right at the city of Ramleh. The conference’s explicit aim: discussing “the proper attitude towards the … Read more

1948

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ONE DAY, I hope, a “Truth and Reconciliation Commission”, on the South African model, will be set up here. It should be composed of Israeli, Palestinian and international historians, whose job will be to establish what really happened in this country in 1948. In the 60 years that have passed since then, the events of … Read more

It could have been over already

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.Responsibility for the escalation and bloodshed in the past day lies on those who refused the cease-fire proposal. Complete calm on both sides of the border could have been achieved already. The escalation and bloodshed of the past twenty-four hours, the killing of an Israeli and five Palestinians, could have been prevented. It was very … Read more