The Terrible Problem
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 […]
If…
Netanyahu:I shall build3800 housesIn the settlements(If I don’tGo to prisonBefore.) Published in Haaretz, 13/10/17
Defense Ministry teach-in against the destruction of Khan Al Akhmar and Susya
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 […]
Har Adar killings should be a wake-up call to the government
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 […]
Separation is Beautiful
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 […]
Time for Independence
After the KurdsAnd the Catalans –What aboutThe plebiscite of the Palestinians? Published in Haaretz, 06/10/17
Thoughts on the Day of Atonement
A government which“Celebrates” fifty yearsOf occupation and settlementIs leading us toAnother fifty yearsOf hatred and bloodshed. Published in Haaretz, 29/09/17
A Tale of Two Stories
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 […]
B’Tselem: The State is asking the High Court’s permission to commit war crime
B’Tselem Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad said, following the State’s response submitted earlier today to the High Court of Justice, that the state was asking the court to authorize a war crime: “No sanctimonious language about a ‘planning, proprietary and realistic’ alternate, or ‘time to prepare’ can erase the disgrace or hide the facts: the destruction […]
B’Tselem: The State is asking the High Court’s permission to commit war crime
B’Tselem Executive Director, Hagai El-Ad said, following the State’s response submitted earlier today to the High Court of Justice, that the state was asking the court to authorize a war crime: “No sanctimonious language about a ‘planning, proprietary and realistic’ alternate, or ‘time to prepare’ can erase the disgrace or hide the facts: the destruction […]