Samples of letters sent by Gush Shalom to Israeli army officers Note: In all these letters, Gush Shalom does not intend to state facts about the actions of theseofficers. We leave this, as well as the ruling of their innocence or guilt, to the properinstitotions. We would very much want to see Israeli courts handling … Read more
Samples of letters sent by Gush Shalom to Israeli army officers Note: In all these letters, Gush Shalom does not intend to state facts about the actions of theseofficers. We leave this, as well as the ruling of their innocence or guilt, to the properinstitotions. We would very much want to see Israeli courts handling … Read more
Gush Shalom has sent a letter of warning to Colonel Yair Golan,commander of the “Nahal” Brigade “The actions of the units under your command, during the occupation of Tamun(a village in the west bank), were registered in a legal file,and might be used, in the future, in an Israeli or International war crimes tribunal.”Text of … Read more
Gush Shalom has sent a letter of warning to Colonel Yair Golan,commander of the “Nahal” Brigade “The actions of the units under your command, during the occupation of Tamun(a village in the west bank), were registered in a legal file,and might be used, in the future, in an Israeli or International war crimes tribunal.”Text of … Read more
Gush Shalom has sent a letter of warning to Colonel Yair Golan,commander of the “Nahal” Brigade : “The actions of the units under your command, during the occupation of Tamun(a village in the west bank), were registered in a legal file,and might be used, in the future, in an Israeli or International war crimes tribunal.” … Read more
When: Saturday night, February 9, 2002, at 7.00 PM Where: Museum Plaza, Tel-Aviv. How: Buses will pick up from: Acre 16:00 from the Acre-Haifa sherut station at Egged. Carmiel : 15:15 from the parking lot of the Central Bus Station (Egged). Sakhnin : 15:45 from the gas station at the western entrance to town. Misgav … Read more
Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the Great Satan. It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new discovery. As if by theorder of a drill-sergeant, the whole Israeli phalanx changed direction. All thepoliticians, all the generals, all the enlisted media, with the usual complement ofprofessors-for-hire, – … Read more
Many years ago I got interested in a field of military activity called Psychological Warfare,in which all the armies in the world invest considerable resources. Psychological warfare is the opposite of propaganda. Propaganda tries to convince the otherside that we are right. Psychological warfare does not try to convince anybody, it is aninstrument of war … Read more
In his epic “War and Peace”, Tolstoy describes the battle of Borodino, one of the cruelest inhistory, in which Napoleon opened the way to Moscow. In the middle of the terrible battle, thehero of the book looks for the Russian commander, Kutusov. He finds him sitting on a chair on thetop of a hill, looking … Read more
Sari Nusseibeh, the new Palestinian commissioner for Jerusalem, tells an interestingstory: Once, driving under pressure because he was late for a lecture at Bir Zeit University, heinadvertently hit a woman crossing the road to catch a bus. He stopped, of course, helped thewoman up and offered to take her to hospital. But she told him … Read more