He is at it again, and again it is working. He is launching colorful balloons, and the wholeworld is looking on with rapture and wonderment. Ariel Sharon needs to divert attention. His popularity has dropped in recent opinion polls.The Geneva initiative has captured the national and international agenda. The policeinvestigations into his corruption affairs have … Read more
photo gallery More than 500 Israeli demonstrators joined today (Saturday 13.12.03)two thousand Palestinians at A-Ram, just north of Jerusalem,in order to protest against the monstrous Wall that’s going to be built there.The action was organized by Gush Shalom, Ta’ayush and Yesh Gvul,and was the biggest joined Israeli-Palestinian demonstration for a long time.A-Ram municipality and schoolchildren … Read more
It is not yet a tidal wave. But it is more then a ripple. It is a wave in the process of formation. During the last few months a realignment of Israeli public opinion has started to becomenoticeable. It has several causes: public tiredness of the endless cycle of bloodshed, theperception that there is no … Read more
(Instead of my usual weekly article, this time I am posting my acceptance speech on receiving, together with Sari Nusseibeh, the Lev Kopelev prize. The award ceremony took place last week in Cologne, Germany.) Ladies and Gentlemen, The Ambassador of Palestine and the former Ambassador of Israel, (I am sorry that I am unable to … Read more
What has happened to the Chief-of-Staff, Lieutenant-General Moshe (“Bogie”) Ya’alon? Until recently, he was the most aggressive hawk in the army, perhaps in the whole country.Suddenly he is almost turning into a dove. Has he had a divine revelation like Rabbi Saul of Tarsus, who went to Damascus to persecute theChristians and arrived there as … Read more
photo gallery About a thousand demonstrators – half of them Israelis, half Palestinians – converged on Saturday morning on the East Jerusalem neighborhoodSawahra, where a section of the “separation wall” is going to be built. It will cut tens of thousands of Palestinian off from the world – from schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, workplaces – … Read more
Immediately after leaving the army, Ariel Sharon created the Likud. It was 1973, when herealized that the army top brass would never tolerate his appointment as Chief-of-Staff. For the creation of the Likud, he had a simple recipe: to unify all the four factions of theRight: Begin’s Herut (“freedom”) movement, the Liberal Party, the “Free … Read more
photo gallery About a thousand demonstrators – half of them Israelis, half Palestinians – converged on Saturday morning on the East Jerusalem neighborhoodSawahra, where a section of the “separation wall” is going to be built. It will cut tens of thousands of Palestinian off from the world – from schools, universities, hospitals, businesses, workplaces – … Read more
In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinaidesert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of theconquered territories. In the 18 year long Lebanon War, more than a thousand Israeli soldiers were murdered whileconquering and … Read more
photo gallery On Saturday, 26 October, we held the first joint Israeli-Palestinian-Internationaldemonstration. The demonstration was held in Kalquilia, on both sides of the separation wall. One group of Palestinians and internationals was on a roof of a school (see enlarged section of photo), while another group demonstrated on the other side of thewall, at a … Read more