How did it Start?
SO HOW THE HELL did it all start? Last week I tried to describe the 1948 war, starting from the shooting at a Jewish bus on the morrow of the UN partition resolution. Some readers dispute the timing. They insist that the war started on May 15, on the morrow of the founding of the […]
The only alternative
President RivlinProposes to annexThe OccupiedTerritoriesAnd grant the voteTo the millionsOf Palestinians.He presents to usThe only alternativeTo theTwo States Solution. Published in Haaretz, 17/02/17
That’s How It Happened
AFTER MY last article, in which I mentioned that the Arabs started the 1948 war after the partition resolution of the UN, I received several furious messages. The writers, who (I suppose) were born after the events, accuse the Zionists of starting the war in order to expel the Arab population. Since I took part […]
For everybody to see
While the KnessetLegalized theRobbery of landFor everybody to see,The Prime MinisterToured the world,Complaining aboutThe revelations of“Breaking the Silence”. Published in Haaretz, 10/02/17
Respect the Green Line!
THE MOST incisive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have ever read was written by the Jewish-Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher. It consists of a single image.A man lives on the upper floor of a building, which catches fire. To save his life, he jumps out of a window and lands on a passerby in the […]
Fri. Feb 3 – visit to threatened Silwan
2016 saw more house demolitions in east jerusalem then any year since 1967 15 minutes from Jerusalem’s center the people of Ein Al Loze in SIlwan live under constant threat of home demolitions. They cannot receive building permits and the municipality systematically rejects any master construction plan.Municipal inspectors and police officers enter the neighborhood on […]
Smoke screen Amona
The evacuationOf AmonaIs catchingThe headlines.Thousands ofNew housesIn the settlementsWill continueTo destroyOur future. Published in Haaretz, 03/02/17
“The deeper the corruption investigation – the wider the inflammatory incitement”
Knesset Member Dov Khenin of Hadash charged Prime Minister Netanyahu with deliberately inciting against the country’s Arab citizens and setting the police to brutal raids – with the deliberate intention of distracting attention from the ongoing police investigation into charges of corruption against the PM. “The deeper the police investigation of Netanyahu, the wider the […]
President Kong
I KNEW he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn’t quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest with such vigor?And then I remembered. It was the hero of a movie that was produced when I was 10 years old: King Kong. King Kong, the giant primate with the heart of gold, who […]
Minus
NetanyahuIs offeringThe PalestiniansA “state minus”.What will weGet in return?A “peace minus”,Of course. Published in Haaretz, 27/01/17