Women Wage Peace! “In the world in which we are living, peace will be possible only when women with integrity and hope will stand up for their right to be concerned about the future of their children”. (Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)In September and October 2017, tens of thousands of … Read more
ONE DAY the Israeli Labor Party felt that it needed a new leader. That happens to this party every couple of years. The party is in bad shape. It looks more like a political corpse than a living organism. Wanted: a new leader, charismatic, energetic, enthusiastic. So they found Avi Gabbay. Why him? Nobody is … Read more
ReconciliationBetweenThe PalestiniansIsGoodForIsrael! Published in Haaretz, 20/10/17
Ze’ev Begin, the son of Menachem Begin, is a very nice human being. It is impossible not to like him. He is well brought up, polite and modest, the kind of person one would like to have as a friend. Unfortunately, his political views are far less likeable. They are much more extreme than even … Read more
Netanyahu:I shall build3800 housesIn the settlements(If I don’tGo to prisonBefore.) Published in Haaretz, 13/10/17
Wed., Oct. 11 – come to learn about the endangered communities of Khan Al Akhmar and Susya from residents and lawyers and others. Defense Minister Liberman has recently vowed to totally destroy the communities of Susya and Khan Al Akhmar in the coming months. These orders fall squarely in line with the systematic Israeli policies … Read more
The killings at Har Adar should serve as a wake-up call to a government which intends to hold tomorrow a “celebration” to mark fifty years of Israeli occupation and settlement in “Judea and Samaria”. The ministers who spent a great deal of public money for this “celebration” assert that we have “come home” to a … Read more
JUST IMAGINE: A new movement among the Mizrahim is born in Israel. It declares that all the existing organizations of Mizrahim (Oriental Jews) are phony. That they are all instruments of the Ashkenazi (European Jewish) elite to keep the Mizrahim in subjugation. That the Oriental Shas party is a joke, especially since the death of … Read more
After the KurdsAnd the Catalans –What aboutThe plebiscite of the Palestinians? Published in Haaretz, 06/10/17
THIS IS the story: at 7 o’clock in the morning, an Arab approaches the gate of Har Adar, a settlement close to the Green Line near the Israeli-Arab village of Abu Ghosh. The man is a “good Arab”. A good Arab with a work permit in the settlement. He lives in the nearby West Bank … Read more