“It is not enough to mention the Palestinian Nakbah in the curriculum of Arab schools in Israel, the subject should also be included in the Hebrew text books studied by Jewish pupils” wrote the Gush Shalom movement to Education Minister Yuli Tamir. “The Arab citizens of Israel need no school textbooks in order to know … Read more
IN A classical American western, the difference is as glaring as the midday sun in Colorado: there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones are the settlers, who are making the prairie bloom. The bad ones are the Indians, who are blood-thirsty savages. The ultimate hero is the cowboy, tough, humane, with a … Read more
Bush’s announcementAbout anInternational “Meeting”,Without Date,Location and Participants -It’s just anotherSoap Bubble.But even ifIt were serious -What is the valueOf a meetingWith less than half ofThe Palestinian people? Ad published in Haaretz, July 20, 2007
A DETECTIVE trying to solve a crime always asks “cui bono?” (who would profit?) When we try to solve the crime called the Second Lebanon War, this question must head the list. The day before yesterday, a full year after the war, the Israeli media devoted most of their time to the retrospective analysis of … Read more
A public opinion poll conducted by “New Wave Research” discloses:49.2% are for simultaneous negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas and Syria.66.0% for negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas.57.4% for contacts with Hamas.50.1% for almost complete withdrawal to the Green Line.52.0% for a demilitarized Palestinian state.62.7% do not believe Olmert can do it. Ad published in Haaretz, July 13, 2007
NOT SINCE the resurrection of Jesus Christ has there been such a miracle: a dead body buried in a cave has come to life again. The “Jordanian Option” gave up its ghost almost twenty years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in 1988, some time after the outbreak of the first … Read more
Every nightThe armyInvades theWest Bank townsIn order toKill or arrestFatah militants.What aCurious wayTo “strengthenMahmoud Abbas”. Ad in Haaretz, July 6, 2007
(including addresses for your protest) Gush Shalom today sent a strong protest to Prime Minster Olmert and Defence Minister Barak, and also a letter to representatives of the European Union – warning about the extreme suffering of about 6000 Palestinians stuck on the Egyptian side of the closed Rafah Border crossing and unable to return … Read more
The verdict in Mordechai Vanunu’s trial is a miscarriage of justice, added to to the earlier unreasonalbe and manifestly wrong decisions taken towards him: to imprison him against his will in a country where he does not want to live, to impose on him unreaonable restrictions and to put him again on trial. It will … Read more
THERE NEVER was a darker Middle East summit meeting. The darkest there can be. The four leaders at Sharm al-Sheik did not sit together at an intimate round table. Each one sat alone behind a huge table of his own. That ensured a striking separation between them. The four long tables hardly touched. Each one … Read more