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Civil War?
IT IS now fashionable to say that “the two-state solution is dead”. Or: “Time for the two-state solution is running out”.
Why dead? How dead? It’s one of those things that need no proof. To say... • 03/08/13
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Both sides Will shake hands
Israel is going to
Release prisoners with
“Blood on their hands”.
When peace comes,
People with
“Blood on their hands”
On both sides
Will shake hands.
So there will not be
Anymore people with... • More...
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The Turkey Under the Table
WHEN YOU have a conflict between two parties, the way to solve it is clear: you put them in the same room, let them thrash out their differences and emerge with a reasonable solution acceptable to... • 27/07/13
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Thank you, Bennett
The bill promoted
By Naftali Bennett
Will seal the doom
Of the settler’ dream.
If a peace agreement
Is signed
And brought
To a referendum,
It will be supported
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A Gift from Europe
ON MY 70th birthday, I received a gift from Yitzhak Rabin: he signed the document recognizing the existence of the Palestinian people, after many decades of denial. He also recognized the... • 20/07/13
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Make peace or become pariahs
A power drunk government
Was totally surprised
By the bucket of
Cold water
Poured over its head
By the EU.
46 years of creating
“accomplished facts”
Never got a recognition
From anybody in the... • More...
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The Grand Dilemma
PERHAPS YOU are facing the same moral dilemma as I am:
What to think about Syria?
What to think about Egypt? • 13/07/13
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Move!
With the fire
Raging around us,
Israel cannot be
A bystander.
If we move towards
Peace with Palestine,
We will significantly help
To stabilize the region.
If we do nothing,
The flames will
Reach... • More...
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A Human Spring
LET ME come back to the story about Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist leader. When asked what he thought about the French Revolution, he famously answered: “It’s too early to say.” • 06/07/13
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WITH THEIR FEET
Kerry’s efforts
Remain fruitless.
The world
Accuses Israel.
Young Jews,
Once proud of Israel,
Distance themselves.
Our own young,
Seeking a future,
Vote with their feet • More...
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Kerry and Chutzpah
IF YOU happen to bump into John Kerry at Ben Gurion Airport, you may wonder whether he is coming or going. He may well be wondering himself. • 29/06/13
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THE PROOF
As proof of its
Sincerity
In pursuing
Peace,
The Netanyahu government
Has declared
War
On the Negev Bedouins
And is resolved
To expel
Tens of thousands. • More...
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When the Gods Laugh
(A shorter version of this article was published in Haaretz on June 19, the day after the official birthday.) • 22/06/13
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A division of labor
President Shimon Peres
Excites the whole world
With his
Vision of peace.
Prime Minister Netanyahu
Adds a bit
Of lip service.
Housing Minister Uri Ariel
Does not talk:
He is busy
Building... • More...
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Triumph and Tragedy
NO OPERA by Richard Wagner could have been more dramatic. It looked as if it was directed by a genius. • 15/06/13
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DANONISM
Anyone noticed
That John Kerry
Did not come
This week?
Instead we heard
From Danny Danon
What we knew already:
Netanyahu has no intention
To negotiate seriously. • More...
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"Boycott Law not yet ripe"
State to the Supreme Court: Boycott Law poses constitutional problems, but...
Gush Shalom: this law might undermine Israel's export economy • 11/06/13
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Butterflies in Damascus
DURING THE Spanish civil war of 1936, a news story reported the deaths of 82 Moroccans, 53 Italians, 48 Russians, 34 Germans, 17 Englishmen, 13 Americans and 8 Frenchmen. Also 1 Spaniard. • 08/06/13
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Cheering
The entire Israeli press
Is cheering for
The demonstrators
Demanding freedom
In Bil’in.
Well, not exactly.
The entire Israeli press
Is cheering for
The demonstrators
Demanding freedom
In Istanbul. • More...
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The False Torch
YA’IR LAPID, the freshman parliamentarian and Treasury Minister, has declared that from now on he will deliver all his important speeches outside the Knesset, confining his Knesset appearances to... • 01/06/13
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Occupation routine
On conscripting
The Ultra-Orthodox
To the occupation army:
A cabinet crisis.
On the occupation itself,
Now 46 years old:
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The State of Whom?
CAN A law be both ridiculous and dangerous?
It certainly can. Witness the ongoing initiative of our government to enact a law that would define the State of Israel as “The Nation-State of the... • 25/05/13
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Provocations to avoid negotiations
A long-standing tradition:
John Kerry is greeted
By provocations:
Legal status granted to
Four manifestly illegal
Settlement outposts.
Netanyahu, Bennet
Or for that matter Yair Lapid –
None of... • More...
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Women of the Wall
THERE WAS this Israeli man who from time to time put a slip of paper in the cracks between the stones of the Western Wall, asking God for favors - as Jews have been doing for centuries. They... • 18/05/13
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NO ANSWER
The generals
Cry out:
“How can we
Guarantee security
When you cut
Our budget?”
A government
Which rejects the
Arab Peace Initiative
Does not have
An answer. • More...
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