.The “Ambassadors’ Forest” is being planted by force on the lands of the Bedouin Citizens of Israel, an act involving dispossessing the owners of these lands, including agricultural lands, and a severe violation of their property rights. To all Ambassadors accredited to Israel. Your Excellencies I would like to draw your attention to “The Ambassadors’ … Read more
.Please consider adding your voices to those who are grateful to Jimmy Carter for writing a brave and important book, Peace Not Apartheid. While the media tries to blank him out, and some would cast aspersions at President Carter for being ‘anti-Israel,’ in fact the book offers much needed wisdom about how to support a … Read more
.“This street is for Jews only” said the soldiers guarding the roadblock at the entrance of the Shuhada Street in Hebron on the West Bank, and refused to let Palestinians and international peace activists pass.“I was there when it happened. The soldier who talked to us did not say these things at his own initiative. … Read more
NO ONE likes to admit a mistake. Me neither. But honesty leaves me no choice.A few days after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, I happened to go on a lecture tour in the US. My message was optimistic. I expected some good to come out of the tragedy. I reasoned … Read more
Should we wait For the Americans To impose on us A settlement with Syria and the Palestinians That will suit American interests? Or should we Start a peace initiative Of our own, In order to Achieve a peace That will suit Israeli interests? Gush Shalom ad published in Haaretz, December 8, 2006
.No wonder that racism manifests itself in practice in a country where an outspoken racist gets appointed as “Minister for Strategic Affairs” and a mayor can make crude racist insults in public. The Government of Israel Demolished an Entire Bedouin Village Today in the Negev In a country where an outspoken racist gets appointed as … Read more
By Israeli and international law alike, the Green Line is Israel’s border. It is not the act of the Education Minister which is ‘political’, but rather the situation in which Israeli pupils have been presented with false maps depicting an occupied territory as if it were part of Israel so that settlement and annexation plans … Read more
A FRIEND of mine, who was brought up in Egypt, took part in the interrogation of Egyptian officers captured in the 1956 Sinai war. An Egyptian lieutenant-colonel told him: “Every time David Ben-Gurion gave a speech declaring that he was holding out his hand for peace, we put our forces on alert.” And, indeed, it … Read more
The cease-fire In the Gaza Strip Will not hold If there will Be no cease-fire In the West Bank. The army chiefs Know that. So why do they Oppose it?
DURING THE first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. In spite of the war raging in nearby Beirut, Jounieh was full of life. The Christian elite spent the day in the … Read more