Kosher certificate
Who is a Jew?An Israeli citizenCan’t be considered JewishWithout the Kosher certificateOf the Chief Rabbinate.- So said Ben Gurion.What is a Jewish state?The State of IsraelCan’t be considered JewishWithout the Kosher certificateOf President Abbas.- So says Netanyahu. Published in Ha’aretzMarch 21, 2014
A Counter-Coalition
SOMETHING VERY important happened this week in the most unlikely of places: the Knesset. On the agenda were three laws, one worse than the other. One was about “governance”. Its main provision raises the “electoral threshold” – i.e. the minimum an election list needs to enter the Knesset – from 2% to 3.25%. The obvious […]
To serve In an occupation army
50 high school studentsTold NetanyahuThat their conscienceDoes not allow themTo serveIn an occupation army.Happy the peopleThat has suchSons and daughters. Published in Ha’aretz, March 14, 2014
God Bless Putin
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is very good at making speeches, especially to Jews, neocons and such, who jump up and applaud wildly at everything he says, including that tomorrow the sun will rise in the west. The question is: is he good at anything else? HIS FATHER, an ultra-ultra-Rightist, once said about him that he is quite […]
Our part
“We have alreadyDone our part!”Said NetanyahuIn response toPresident Obama.No doubt:In settlement constructionNetanyahu has doneVery much indeed. Published in Ha’aretz – March 7,. 2014
Their Mothers, Their Fathers
IT IS the summer of 1941. Five youngsters – three young men and two young women – meet in a bar and spend a happy evening, flirting with each other, getting drunk, dancing forbidden foreign dances. They have grown up together in the same neighborhood of Berlin. It is a happy time. The war started […]
Judaization and Zero Tolerance
Naftali Bennet,A senior minister inThe Netanyahu cabinet,Advocates “Judaization”Of the Negev and GalileeAnd expresses “Zero tolerance”For the aspirationsOf Israel’s Arab citizens.Is this the shape of“The Jewish State”Which PalestiniansMust recognize? Published in Ha’aretz – February 28, 2014
Captain Boycott Rides Again
IT HAS always been a secret ambition of mine to have a bagatz ruling bearing my name. Bagatz is the Hebrew acronym for “High Court of Justice”, the Israeli equivalent of a constitutional court. It plays a very important role in Israeli public life. Having a ground-breaking Supreme Court decision named after you confers a […]
On the moon?
Netanyahu is for two states(So he says)But sees nothing wrongIn settlement expansion.A Palestinian state where?On the moon? Published in Ha’aretz – February 21, 2014
Three Women
THIS IS a declaration of love. Three loves, actually.I love Achinoam Nini. I love her from afar. I have never met her. I love her for what she did a few weeks ago. The Israeli organization of composers and writers had awarded her a prize for Life Achievement. Though only 44 years old, she certainly […]