Call for olive harvest volunteers
Call for Volunteers: Rabbis for Human Rights is very much in need of volunteers tohelp with the olive harvest in the West Bank. Groups go out most days and willcontinue through the month. Please contact the offices at 02-6482757 or emailinfo@rhr.israel.net if are interested. Your presence makes a huge difference!
Ovadia’s Choice
WHEN RABBI Ovadia Yosef first appeared on the national scene, I heaved a deep sigh of relief.Here was the man I had dreamed of: a charismatic leader of oriental Jews, a man of peace, a bearer of a moderate religious tradition. “Rabbi Ovadia”, as everybody called him, who died this week at the age of […]
RULING
Rabbi Ovadia YosefMade a Rabbinical rulingThat gaining peaceHas precedenceOver keeping territoryIf the hundreds of thousandsWho attended his funeralWould follow his teaching -Peace would beA reality. Published in “Haaretz” – October 11, 2013
Killjoy Was Here
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU aroused my pity. From my 10 years of membership in the Knesset I know how unpleasant it is to speak before an empty hall. His die-hard followers – a pathetic residue of Casino magnates and burnt-out Zionist right-wingers – sat in the gallery and an over-blown Israeli delegation sat in the hall, but […]
LOUD AND CLEAR
The worldHeard itLoud and clear:Israel’s PMThreatened warAnd dismissed as a liePresident Rohani’sConciliatory speech.(MeanwhileTaking for grantedIsrael’s own”Nuclear ambiguity”.) Published in “Haaretz”, October 4, 2013
The Real Bomb
YEARS AGO I disclosed one of the biggest secrets about Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an agent of the Mossad. Suddenly, all the curious details of his behavior made sense. His public fantasies about the disappearance of Israel. His denial of the Holocaust, which until then had been typical only of a lunatic fringe. His boasting […]
Congratulations to Raji Sourani
Gush Shalom congratulates .Adv. Raji Sourani, veteran Gaza Human Rights activist, now Laureate of the Alternative Nobel Prize Gush Shalom warmly congratulates Adv. Raji Sourani of Gaza for winning the Right Livelihood Award (better known as “The Alternative Nobel Prize”). It is by all criteria a most worthy choice. Gush Shalom, an Israeli movement active […]
HEBRON
The State of IsraelPlaced settlersIn the heart of Hebron.Soldiers were postedTo guard the settlers.One of the soldiersWas shot and killed.In reaction, NetanyahuGives the settlersOne more building.To be guardedBy more soldiers… Published in “Haaretz” – September 27, 2013
Wedn. Sep. 25: Solidarity visit to the village of Khirbet Makhoul CANCELED
Urgent Message – tomorrow’s action (25.9) at Khirbet Makhoul canceled Following an appeal lodged by the attorney acting for inhabitants of Khirbet Makhoul, a temporary judicial injunction allowing villagers to return to their village and re-build their homes.We have no details of the injunction and what conditions are set in it, when we get such […]
Stolen Wars
IF SOMEBODY steals something precious from you, say a diamond, you may be angry. Even God himself said so. When He sent a worm to kill the gourd which provided shade for the prophet Jonah in the desert, He asked him maliciously: “Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd?” (Jonah 4:9) And now […]