“IF YOU want to understand the policy of a nation, look at the map!” Napoleon is supposed to have said. It is good advice. If you are living in Israel, these days, you get the impression that the huge State of Israel is dictating to its American vassal what to do about Iran. President Donald … Read more
Standing onOne legMight endWith fallingTherefore:Embassy to Israel –In West Jerusalem.Embassy to Palestine –In East Jerusalem. Tomorrow, Sat. May 12 at 8.00 PM, a march fromGan Hasus (Horse Park) in central Jerusalem,with the call: “Don’t set Jerusalem on Fire!” Published in Haaretz, 11/05/18
Members of Kol Aher (Another Voice), an Israeli movement based in the town of Sderot and in smaller communities in the Gaza border area, held a demonstration Friday at the Yad Mordechai Junction, a short distance north of the border – where they have already held numerous demonstrations and protests on earlier occasions. Demonstrators made … Read more
Ben-Gurion said about her: “The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!” Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me. The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. Everything. Once, in the middle of a speech in the Knesset (I believe it … Read more
The police investigatorsAre coming near!What to do?1) Fire the police chief.2) Elections.3) War with Iran.4) All of the Above. Published in Haaretz, 04/05/18
After two years and a half in which the poet Dareen Tatour was held in prison and under house arrest for the “crime” of writing a poem and publishing it on the Internet, the verdict in her trial is to be announced. The verdict announcement session will be held tomorrow, Thursday May 3rd,at 11:00, in … Read more
ON THE fifth day of the six-day war in 1967, I published an open letter to the Prime Minister, Levy Eshkol. The Israeli army had just conquered the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and I proposed that Eshkol immediately offer the Palestinian people to establish the State of Palestine there, in return … Read more
Natalie Portman’sRefusal to shakeNetanyahu’s handVerges on anti-Semitism.So said Minister Steinitz.If that is so, thenThere are in IsraelQuite a lot ofAnti-Semites. Published in Haaretz, 27/04/18
TWO DAYS ago, the State of Israel celebrated its 70th birthday. For days we heard about nothing else. Innumerable speeches full of platitudes. A huge festival of kitsch. Everyone agreed: It was a historic moment, when David Ben-Gurion got up in a small hall in Tel Aviv and declared the foundation of the state. Everybody … Read more
Netanyahu mightSoon face judgesTo answerCriminal charges.Now he is strivingTo undermineThe Supreme Court.Coincidence? Published in Haaretz, 20/04/18