Friday January 17: Stand at road junctions to support peace
On Friday, January 17, 2014, between 10 am to 1 pm , Israeli peace activists will be standing at fifty road junctions throughout the country, to express support for peace with the Palestinians. They will hold banners reading “Peace Junction Ahead” and distribute to motorists leaflets and car stickers with the slogan “The Majority has […]
Bibi & Libie
PERHAPS I am too stupid, but for the heck of me I cannot understand the sense of the Israeli demand that the Palestinians recognize Israel as a Jewish state. On the face of it, it seems like a clever trick by Binyamin Netanyahu to divert attention from the real issues. If so, the Palestinian leadership […]
That is, in a democratic state
To the attention ofForeign MinisterLieberman:A state mayGive up territory.A state may notStrip its citizensOf their citizenship.That is, of course,In a democratic state. Published in Haaretz – Jan. 14 2014
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 January, 2014 Making History Israeli – Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships apparently do not have a working strategy to cope with their conflict. So, the time has […]
קונגרס ישראלי-פלסטיני למו”מ ברמאללה ובירושלים חמישי-שישי , 9-10/1/2014
ינואר 2014הודעה לעיתונותעושים היסטוריה – הציבור לוקח את השלום לידייםקונגרס ישראלי-פלסטיני למו”מ ברמאללה ובירושליםחמישי-שישי , 9-10/1/2014בשעה שההנהגות מתקשות לקבל החלטות והאלימות מתחילה לעלות – חובתו של הציבור להתחיל להוביל! ב- 9-10 לינואר – משלחת ישראלית, משלחת פלסטינית וקהל ינהלו מו”מ על סיום הסכסוך. לקונגרס יש חמישה מושבים להגיע להסכמי שלום. כמובן, למשתתפים משני הצדדים אין […]
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014
Making History: Israeli – Palestinian Grassroots Negotiations – Public Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 January, 2014 Making History Israeli – Palestinian Public Negotiating Congress in Ramallah & Jerusalem January 9-10, 2014 The Israeli and Palestinian leaderships apparently do not have a working strategy to cope with their conflict. So, the time has […]
Neutral – in whose favor?
A FORMER Israeli army Chief of Staff, a man of limited intelligence, was told that a certain individual was an atheist. “Yes,” he asked, “but a Jewish atheist or a Christian atheist?” Lenin, in his Swiss exile, once inquired about the party affiliation of a newly elected member of the Duma. “Oh, he is just […]
Suicidal government
This week opened with big headlines, informing us that if negotiations with the Palestinians collapse, the Europeans will lay the blame on the State of Israel – specifically, on the Netanyahu Government’s insistence upon announcing spectacular settlement construction projects. Such assigning of blame by the EU might have far-reaching consequences to the Israeli economy. The […]
NO CONFIDENCE
The release ofPalestinian prisonersWas supposed to beA confidence-building measure.But settlement constructionAnd the bill to annexThe Jordan ValleyAre making sureThat there will remainNo trace of confidence! Published in “Haaretz”, January 3, 2014
Mandela: The Movie
I HAVE just seen the new movie “Mandela”, and I am so full of impressions that I cannot abstain from writing them down. It is a very good film, with very good actors. But that’s not the main point. It is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot […]