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Back to the scene of the crime
WHEN THE Israeli government decided, in the space of a few hours, to start the Second Lebanon War, it did not have any plan.
When the Chief-of-Staff urged the cabinet to start the war, he did not... • 16/12/06
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Letter to embassies
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The "Ambassadors' Forest" is being planted by force on the lands of the Bedouin Citizens of Israel, an act involving dispossessing the owners of these lands, including agricultural lands, and a... • 13/12/06
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Jimmy Carter, thanks
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Please consider adding your voices to those who are grateful to Jimmy Carter for writing a brave and important book, Peace Not Apartheid. • 13/12/06
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For Jews only?
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“This street is for Jews only” said the soldiers guarding the roadblock at the entrance of the Shuhada Street in Hebron on the West Bank, and refused to let Palestinians and international peace... • 10/12/06
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Baker's Cake
NO ONE likes to admit a mistake. Me neither. But honesty leaves me no choice.
A few days after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, I happened to go on a lecture tour in the US. • 09/12/06
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Entire Bedouin village erased
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No wonder that racism manifests itself in practice in a country where an outspoken racist gets appointed as "Minister for Strategic Affairs” and a mayor can make crude racist insults in public. • 06/12/06
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The Green Line and the schoolbooks
By Israeli and international law alike, the Green Line is Israel’s border. It is not the act of the Education Minister which is 'political', but rather the situation in which Israeli pupils have... • 05/12/06
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A Sparkling Bubble
A FRIEND of mine, who was brought up in Egypt, took part in the interrogation of Egyptian officers captured in the 1956 Sinai war. • 02/12/06
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An Evening in Jounieh
DURING THE first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. • 25/11/06
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In One Word: MASSACRE!
"THANK GOD for the American elections," our ministers and generals sighed with relief.
They were not rejoicing at the kick that the American people delivered to George W. Bush's ass this week... • 11/11/06
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Lovable Man
IN ITS original German form - Lieberman - the name means "lovable man". It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of Israel.
He is not lovable, neither in his... • 03/11/06
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Who is Afraid of the Iranian Bomb?
AT THE height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate ("never was so much owed by so many to so few"), an official in charge of propaganda had a... • 28/10/06
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Ehud von Olmert
THE NAME of Franz von Papen is familiar to everyone who knows the history of the German republic that was born after World War I and that died when Hitler came to power. • 19/10/06
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The Great Experiment
IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it?
That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the... • 14/10/06
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Lunch in Damascus
ONCE, WHILE traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver - a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in vain to convince him of the desirability of peace... • 07/10/06
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