Impunity

Will Netanyahu convinceThe Court in JerusalemTo let him hold officeAs Prime MinisterEven while being indictedFor taking bribes?Can he also convinceThe Court in the HagueTo let him violateInternational LawWith impunity?

The enablers

With the new governmentNetanyahu will be able to doWhat until now he couldn’t:Annex to IsraelWhat should have becomeThe Palestinian state,The death blowTo any hopeOf a peaceful future.Our special thanks to the enablersBenny Gantz and Amir Peretz.

Terrible days

Too many elderly peopleDie alone, cut off fromTheir loved ones.Too many young peopleLose jobs and livelihood,Facing mounting debtsThey have no way of paying.And Netanyahu?Still obsessed withStaying in power.

The same day

The Palestinian shepherdsIn the Jordan ValleyDon’t have muchAgainst the Coronavirus.But they did erect two tents,To serve as a clinicAnd some moreTo isolate those whoMight fall ill.Soldiers and bulldozers were sentTo demolish the clinic, on Thursday,The same day that Ganz embracedThe Netanyahu government!

Israelis, Palestinians and COVID-19 – March 2020 assessment from the Geneva Initiative

Why did COVID-19 raise the The Two-State Index? From Two-State IndexTSI@genevainitiative.org Israeli-Palestinian cooperation rises to meet threat of COVID-19: Effect ofthe global pandemic on Israeli and Palestinian societies leads both sides towork together against a common enemy, and enables an unprecedented Israelidecision to allow PA security forces to enter East Jerusalem and Area CCOVID-19 crisis … Read more