On Friday, January 17, 2014, between 10 am to 1 pm , Israeli peace activists will be standing at fifty road junctions throughout the country, to express support for peace with the Palestinians. They will hold banners reading “Peace Junction Ahead” and distribute to motorists leaflets and car stickers with the slogan “The Majority has … Read more
PERHAPS I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. On the face of it, it seems like a clever trick by Binyamin Netanyahu to divert attention from the real issues. If so, the Palestinian leadership … Read more
To the attention ofForeign MinisterLieberman:A state mayGive up territory.A state may notStrip its citizensOf their citizenship.That is, of course,In a democratic state. Published in Haaretz – Jan. 14 2014
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 January, 2014 Making History Israeli – Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships apparently do not have a working strategy to cope with their conflict. So, the time has … Read more
ינואר 2014הודעה לעיתונותעושים היסטוריה – הציבור לוקח את השלום לידייםקונגרס ישראלי-פלסטיני למו”מ ברמאללה ובירושליםחמישי-שישי , 9-10/1/2014בשעה שההנהגות מתקשות לקבל החלטות והאלימות מתחילה לעלות – חובתו של הציבור להתחיל להוביל! ב- 9-10 לינואר – משלחת ישראלית, משלחת פלסטינית וקהל ינהלו מו”מ על סיום הסכסוך. לקונגרס יש חמישה מושבים להגיע להסכמי שלום. כמובן, למשתתפים משני הצדדים אין … Read more
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 January, 2014 Making History Israeli – Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships apparently do not have a working strategy to cope with their conflict. So, the time has … Read more
A FORMER Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?” Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about the party affiliation of a newly elected member of the Duma. “Oh, he is just … Read more
This week opened with big headlines, informing us that if negotiations with the Palestinians collapse, the Europeans will lay the blame on the State of Israel – specifically, on the Netanyahu Government’s insistence upon announcing spectacular settlement construction projects. Such assigning of blame by the EU might have far-reaching consequences to the Israeli economy. The … Read more
The release ofPalestinian prisonersWas supposed to beA confidence-building measure.But settlement constructionAnd the bill to annexThe Jordan ValleyAre making sureThat there will remainNo trace of confidence! Published in “Haaretz”, January 3, 2014
Silent March For Freedom for Refugees – Sat. Dec. 28, 2013, Tel Aviv This Saturday night, we Israelis and refugees together, will MARCH IN SILENCE FOR THE FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF AFRICAN REFUGEES IN ISRAEL. Together we will take a stand against the unjust imprisonment of refugees without trial and against the recent wave … Read more