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The Atrocity
BOMBS ARE raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed.
Again. • 12/07/14
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Another round
Those who refused
To accept Hamas
In a Palestinian government
Negotiating with Israel -
Get Hamas
In another
Futile and useless
Round of war. • More...
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The Watch on the Jordan
THE ARAB world is in turmoil. Syria and Iraq are breaking apart, the thousand-year old conflict between Muslim Sunnis and Muslim Shiites is reaching a new climax. A historic drama is unfolding... • 05/07/14
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Infernal carousel
Attack and revenge,
Revenge and attack,
Kidnapping and killing,
Killing and kidnapping…
Until when??? • More...
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An Armed Ghetto
ONE SIDE’S terrorists are the other side’s freedom fighters. That is not simply a matter of terminology. It is a difference of perception, which has far-reaching practical consequences.
Take... • 28/06/14
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Definitely not
Everybody in whom
A human heart beats
Still hopes that
The three boys
Will come back
Alive and well.
Does this
Make the world
Forget that
Israel occupies
Millions of Palestinians
For 47 years? • More...
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It does not
Does the arrest
Of the Speaker
Of the Palestinian Legislature
Help in locating
The abducted boys?
Netanyahu, too, knows
It does not. • More...
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Force feeding
The force feeding
Of hunger strikers
Contrary to
Medical ethics
Will not diminish
Their struggle.
Worldwide protest
Against detention without trial
Will only become louder. • More...
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Good for the Jews?
HOW DOES a football club choose its team?
The simple way is the usual one: each side has a manager, who chooses his team. No problem.
Now the Israeli government has hit on a new way: Our manager... • 07/06/14
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47 years old
The occupation is
47 years old.
Forty seven years of
Hatred and bloodshed,
Enormous waste of resources,
Corruption of our society.
Israel must
Free itself
Of the occupation! • More...
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Palestinian Unity - good for us, too
Gush Shalom
Congratulates the Palestinian People
On the end of the split
Which was harmful
To them and to us.
The Palestinian Unity government
Could and should be
Our partner for
Peace. • More...
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Patagonian Dreams
DURING HIS short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl.
That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the pope... • 31/05/14
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A day later
The Pope made
A call for peace,
Striking a chord
Also with
Non-Christians
A day later:
“Jerusalem Day”
Netanyahu crying
“Forever ours!” • More...
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In Their Own Juice
ACCORDING TO press reports, President Barack Obama has decided to let Binyamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas “stew in their own juice.” • 24/05/14
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Occupation for ever
Maccabi Tel Aviv
Won a European Cup
And the crowds
Went wild
In the streets.
But with no peace in sight
And occupation for ever -
How long will
The gates of Europe
Remain open to us? • More...
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Dear Salman
YEARS AGO I was invited to a UN conference on the Palestinian refugees in Paris. • 17/05/14
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Legislation barrage
A panicking Netanyahu
Starts a legislation barrage:
Blocking prisoner release -
In case peace
Is not dead yet,
And abolishing
The presidency -
Because his own seat
Is shaking. • More...
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A National Hero
JUST BEFORE Israel’s 66th Independence Day, the country acquired a new national hero.
If it is true that every nation gets the national heroes it deserves, it was a rather worrying spectacle. • 10/05/14
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So said the Chief of Staff
IDF Chief of Staff
Benny Ganz
Said on Memorial Day:
“The calm situation
Is a misleading illusion.
Any spark might cause
A conflagration”
A society which normally
Admires the Army
Completely... • More...
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A Shameful Chapter
HOW WOULD the US react to a declaration that the Palestinians would not conduct negotiations with an Israeli government that includes semi-fascist parties? • 03/05/14
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Its first Independence Day
The State of Israel
Is celebrating
Its sixty-sixth
Independence Day.
Israel’s future
Will not be assured
Until the State of Palestine
Celebrates its first
Independence Day. • More...
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Words, Words, Words
IMAGINE A war breaking out between Israel and Jordan. Within two or three days the Israeli army occupies the entire territory of the Hashemite Kingdom. What will be the first act of the occupation... • 26/04/14
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They don’t want peace!
In his Bar Ilan Speech
Netanyahu accepted
A Palestinian state.
Now the Palestinians
Want to know
What will be
Its borders.
Netanyahu’s reaction:
“That proves
They don’t want peace!” • More...
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An Oslo Criminal
THE DEATH of Ron Pundak, one of the original Israeli architects of the 1993 Oslo agreement, brought that historic event back into the public eye. • 19/04/14
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A death trap
The talks have
Collapsed,
The occupation
Goes on,
And with it
The conflict.
A family visit
To a settlement
In occupied territory
Turned into
A death trap. • More...
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