Women’s Journey to Peace

Women Wage Peace! “In the world in which we are living, peace will be possible only when women with integrity and hope will stand up for their right to be concerned about the future of their children”. (Leymah Gbowee, a Liberian leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate)In September and October 2017, tens of thousands of […]

A New Start

ONE DAY the Israeli Labor Party felt that it needed a new leader. That happens to this party every couple of years. The party is in bad shape. It looks more like a political corpse than a living organism. Wanted: a new leader, charismatic, energetic, enthusiastic. So they found Avi Gabbay. Why him? Nobody is […]

Not bad at all

ReconciliationBetweenThe PalestiniansIsGoodForIsrael! Published in Haaretz, 20/10/17

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