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Sad and Happy
“WILL THIS be the happiest day of your life?” a local interviewer asked me, referring to the approaching recognition of the State of Palestine by the UN. • 17/09/11
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With eyes closed
The government does not recognize
The reality of dozens of Bedouin villages
Whether in the Negev or on the West Bank
And intends to evict them by force
The government does not recognize
The... • More...
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THE PRICE
Turkey is turning
Into a foe,
The peace with Egypt
Is evaporating.
The Gaza siege
Is strengthening Hamas.
The refusal to recognize
Palestine
Is isolating
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Dogs of War
Such terrifying dogs have not been seen since the Hound of the Baskervilles. • 03/09/11
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Instead of panicking...
The great majority
Of the world's nations
Are about to
Vote for recognizing
The State of Palestine
If you can't beat them,
Why not join them? • More...
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Déjà vu
Again killed and injured,
Again brinkmanship,
Again a fragile cease-fire
In Gaza.
Again billions are spent
On border fortifications
And missile defenses
For the next round.
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The Return of the Generals
SINCE THE beginning of the conflict, the extremists of both sides have always played into each other’s hands. The cooperation between them was always much more effective than the ties between the... • 20/08/11
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No Crumbs, Please!
This week the Palestinians
Asked the UN
For recognition of
The State of Palestine.
They will not be put off
With crumbs.
This week the Israeli
Social protest leaders
Formed a
Committee of experts... • More...
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Dichter's Law
“THE PEOPLE Demand Social Justice!” 250 thousand protesters chanted in unison in Tel Aviv last Saturday. But what they need – to quote an American artist - is “more unemployed politicians”. • 13/08/11
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NEW WAVE
This mass movement
For Social Justice
Will wash away
The blind worship
Of "security"
And the politicians
Who built their career
On hatred.
Again there is hope
For Israel -
No longer the... • More...
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“How Goodly Are Thy Tents”
FIRST OF all, a warning.
Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government. • 06/08/11
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FIG LEAF
Netanyahu is sending Peres
To offer plans to the Palestinians –
But has no intention
To end the occupation.
Netanyahu is sending Peres
To offer support to the protesters –
But has no intention
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PINOCCHYAHU
Netanyahu promised
The young people,
Who are demonstrating
In their tens of thousands,
“Affordable housing”.
They don’t believe a word.
And why should they?
Where was the truth
In all his... • More...
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Housing there - or here
Thousands of young people
Demonstrate against
The housing prices.
Some say:
"This is not a political issue"
That is a mistake:
There is a direct connection
Between the huge
State investments
In... • More...
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It Can Happen Here!
YEARS AGO I said that there are but two miracles in Israel: the Hebrew language and democracy.
Hebrew had been a dead language for many generations, more or less like Latin, when it was still... • 15/07/11
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Thugs
Having launched the boycott
Of settlement products
14 years ago,
Gush Shalom has now appealed
To the Supreme Court
To overturn the monstrous
"Boycott Law".
In response,
The storm troops of
Thugs... • More...
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Have we gone crazy?
A few hundred
Peace activists
From around the world
Are trying to land
In Ben-Gurion airport
And cross Israel
In order to reach
Ramallah and Bethlehem.
The entire state
Has been mobilized
To stop... • More...
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The Jewish Ayatollahs
THE ARCHBISHOP of New York announces that any Catholic who rents out an apartment to a Jew commits a mortal sin and runs the risk of excommunication. • 02/07/11
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