The Nazareth Magistrate’s Court, under Judge Adi Bambiliya, will today – Thursday, January 26, at 9:00 am – resume deliberations in the trial of poet Dareen Tatour. The prosecutor is planning to continue and finish the counter interrogation of Dareen in this hearing. Some other witnesses for the defense should also testify. The presence of … Read more
PERHAPS HE is lying all the time. Perhaps he is lying about being a liar. Perhaps he is cheating about being a cheat. Perhaps he is just posing as an impostor. Perhaps he has misled us all about his misleading. Perhaps he is a very shrewd manipulator, who has led us all into believing that … Read more
Erasing Bedouin Al-HiranTo make placeFor a Jewish HiranHas already costTwo lives.With TrumpIn the White House,Expect more. Published in Haaretz, 20/01/17
In Washington, large protests expected at the Trump inauguration; also in Tel Aviv, an anti-Trump is due opposite the US embassy, on Sat. January 21 According to reports from the US, tens and hundreds of thousands of people are converging on Washington D.C. and the protests at Trump’s Inauguration are expected to be among the … Read more
“Hélène Le Gal, French Ambassador to Israel, met today with Professor Eli Barnavi (former Israeli Ambassador to Frenace) , Professor Galia Golan, Susie Becher and former Ambassador Ilan Baruch, members of the Policy Work Group. During the meeting, they gave to the Ambassador a petition signed by 1,200 Israelis, who support the French Peace Initiative … Read more
Robi Damelin, an Israeli bereaved mother whose son – an IDF officer – was killed by a Palestinian sniper during the Second Intifada, gave to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) a watch bearing the flags of Israel and Palestine, and the word “Peace” in Hebrew, Arabic and English. That was at the climax … Read more
THE ARAB taxi driver who brought me to Ramallah had no trouble with the Israeli border posts. He just evaded them.Saves a lot of trouble. I was invited by Mahmood Abbas, the President of the Palestinian National Authority (as well as of the PLO and the Fatah movement) to take part in joint Palestinian-Israeli consultations … Read more
Netanyahu,Go to Paris!So thatOur youngWill not haveTo go onKilling andBeing killed! Published in Haaretz, 13/01/17
Mr. President Francois Hollande – We, Israeli citizens who are actively engaged in the pursuit of a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, welcome the French Government’s action in convening an international conference in mid-January 2017 We fully support your aim of generating international encouragement for a successful and accelerated Middle East Peace Process that … Read more
DURING WORLD WAR II, when German bombers terrorized Britain, a small group of gallant airmen faced them every day. Their life expectancy was numbered in days. Once, a genius at the propaganda ministry devised a poster: “Who is afraid of the German Luftwaffe?” When it was posted at one of the Royal Air Force bases, … Read more