Tommorow (Wed., Dec. 4) at 8.00 AM, the 18-year old musician Omar Sa`ad, fromAl Mughar Village in the Galilee, will show up at the Tiberias recruitment center and willdeclare his refusal to join the IDF. He expects to be sent to military prison. Activists of New Profile movement will will hold a solidarity vigil outside. … Read more
THE GREATEST danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders. This is not a uniquely Israeli phenomenon. A great many of the world’s leaders are plain stupid, and always have been. Enough to look at what happened in Europe in July 1914, when an … Read more
The Tel Aviv Journalists’ Association awarded me the “Lifetime Achievement Prize”. The ceremony took place in Eilat before an audience of almost 1000 journalists. Here follows my acceptance speech: THE WORDS “lifetime achievement” have a certain undertone. There is a hint that the work is finished. I have just been told that the 90-year-old Shimon … Read more
In spite ofAll the rhetoric,The governmentHas signed theAgreement toBoycottThe settlements.Congratulations! Published in “Haaretz” – November 29, 2013
THIS IS not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. On the one side there are the two renowned professors, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. On the other, the towering international intellectual Noam Chomsky. … Read more
In the past,IranWas our ally.In the future,IranMay again becomeOur ally.ReconciliationIs in ourNational interest. Published in “Haaretz”, November 22, 2013
FROM THE first moment, I did not have the slightest doubt that Yasser Arafat was assassinated. It was a matter of simple logic. On the way back from the funeral, I happened upon Jamal Zahalka, a member of the Knesset for the nationalist Arab Balad party, who is a highly qualified doctoral pharmacist. We exchanged … Read more
NetanyahuHas a new ally:Saudi Arabia.If so,Why not adoptThe SaudiPeace initiative? Published in “Haaretz” – November 15, 2013
Despite considerable violence and harassment by the extreme right, the Minds of Peace campaign continues – with the idea of holding in the Jerusalem public space grassroots negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians who are not professional diplomats, so as to promote and boost the faltering official negotiations. Immediate ReleaseMedia Inquires – Sari CicurelSari m productions248-766-0945 … Read more
ON MY 16th birthday, in 1939, I rushed to the district registration office of the Government of Palestine to change my name officially. I shed the German name I was given at birth and adopted the Hebrew first and surname I had chosen. It was more than a mere change of names. It was a … Read more