How the hell did I get into this goddamned mess? I wake up in the morning and can’t believeit. What, I, Arik Sharon, am waging a war against the settlers? I, who put them there in the firstplace ? I, who drafted the map of the settlements long before the settlers themselves everdreamed of it … Read more
Let’s imagine for a moment that the huge tidal waves had hit the western shores of Europe,that more than a hundred thousand English, Irish, Dutch, Belgian, French, Spanish andPortuguese had fallen victim to the tsunami, and that the east coast of the United States hadalso suffered. How the world would have sprung into action! How … Read more
Between the Green Line and the Fence photo gallery Hundreds of activists of Gush Shalom, Taayush, The Committee Against House Demolitionand others demonstrated on the last day of 2004 against the uprooting of the olive trees ofJayush village and the building of a large new settlement there. This is being done under theguise of enlarging … Read more
Between the Green Line and the Fence photo gallery Hundreds of activists of Gush Shalom, Taayush, The Committee Against House Demolitionand others demonstrated on the last day of 2004 against the uprooting of the olive trees ofJayush village and the building of a large new settlement there. This is being done under theguise of enlarging … Read more
“The curious incident is the barking of the dog,” Sherlock Holmes remarked. “But the dog did not bark!” exclaimed Dr. Watson. “That is the curious incident!” This week’s curious incident concerns the wreath of Tony Blair. The wreath that he did notlay on the grave of Yasser Arafat. Elementary, dear Watson. Blair did go to … Read more
Ariel Sharon’s speech at the “Herzliya Conference”, an annual gathering of Israel’sfinancial, political and academic aristocracy, proved again his wondrous ability toconjure up an imaginary world and divert attention away from the real one. Like everysuccessful con-man, he knows that the audience desperately wants to believe good tidings andwill be happy to ignore bad ones. … Read more
When the fruit sellers at the Tel Aviv market shout “the boss has gone crazy!” they meanthat they are selling their merchandise at ridiculously low prices. In the world’s capitals, a similar cry is now being heard: “The boss has gone crazy!” – butit is not about the price of tomatoes. It refers to the … Read more
My immediate reaction to Marwan Barghouti’s registration as a candidate for the presidencyof the Palestinian Authority was positive. First of all, I am always in favor of the underdog. And who could be more of an underdog than aprisoner? Second, I respect the man. I have met him at planning meetings for joint peace actions. … Read more
“Give me some credit!” the new Israeli Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, cried out at the LaborParty convention in February 1965, addressing David Ben-Gurion. From the moment he resigned, Ben-Gurion started to undermine his successor. Eshkol, whountil then had only dealt with finances, looked pale and ineffectual next to his monumentalpredecessor, the Father of the State, … Read more
George W. Bush is a product of the Wild West myth. He sees himself as the fast-drawingsheriff who kills the bad guys and maintains order in town. But in fact he is much more like another stock figure of the Westerns: the top-hattedvendor of the patent medicine which heals everything: tooth-ache and belly-ache, choleraand impotence, … Read more