Khan El Ahmar still stands
Khan El AhmarAnd its school,The village’s pride,Still stand.Thanks toPeople who care,In Israel and abroad.Foremost, thanksTo the villagers’Persistence. Published in Haaretz, 13/07/18
History En
A Very Intelligent Person
IN THE late 1980s, my secretary told me that the Deputy Chief of Staff wanted to see me. That was rather surprising. The army command was not on friendly terms with my paper, Haolam Hazeh. For dozens of years we had been officially boycotted by the army, after publishing a story which the then Chief … Read more
Two kinds of news
Front page news:IDF supplied tentsTo Syrian refugees.IDF snipers killingA 14 years oldAt the Gaza border:News fit forThe bottomOf inner pages. Published in Haaretz, 06/07/18
Salama Remembers Razan Al-Najjar
During the Nakba, the family of nurse Razan Al-Najjar was expelled from the village of Salama.We convene Tuesday, 3.7.18, 18:00, at the Sabil Abu-Nabbut fountain, 49 Derekh Ben-Zvi – close to the ancestral village to which Razan hoped to return. #WomenUnderSiege #WomansMarchGaza.
The Next Boat to Gaza
Elizabeth Murray, of Creative Voices for Non Violence, spent some time with the Freedom Flotilla boat Al-Awda, which has just two European ports of call left to make before sailing in hopes to break the horrendous siege of Gaza. All ships to date have been intercepted and boarded by the IDF, which in 2010 massacred … Read more
Princely Visits
PRINCE WILLIAM, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week. He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right things, and even ate a watermelon with our mayor on the sandy shore of Tel Aviv. If the … Read more
The whole world
Prince William:”East JerusalemIs OccupiedPalestinian Territory”.This is not justHis personal opinion.The whole worldIs saying soSince 1967. Published in Haaretz, 29/06/18
Two Souls
“AS LONG as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem. Actually, the Hebrew original says “the soul of a Jew”, but the translator probably got it right. It’s the Jewish Soul that was meant. But is there a Jewish Soul? Is it different from … Read more
Something to hide
A law to forbidTaking photosOf IDF soldiersIs an official, formalStatement byThe State of Israel:“We haveSomething to hide!” Published in Haaretz, 22/06/18
The Siamese Twins
After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series “The Captains”, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered: Yitzhak Rabin. Let me state right from the beginning: I liked the man. He was a man after my own heart: … Read more