This Week's Message
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To be able to call home
After many hunger strikes
The state of Israel now agreed
To install public phones
Also for Palestinian prisoners.
Avoiding an embarrassment
During the Eurovision:
Prisoners starving themselves... • More...
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How lucky
What should we vote for?
To get rid of Netanyahu,
Or to end the occupation?
Fortunately, there are
Parties and candidates
Standing firmly for both. • More...
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There is a partner
The Government of Israel
Negotiated with Hamas
And reached an agreement.
Both Hamas and Israel
Kept their part of the deal.
If it is possible to talk
Even to Hamas,
Let no one say again
That... • More...
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Reality out of the blue
Conducting elections
As if there are
No Palestinians,
No occupation and
No siege of Gaza.
Then seeing reality
Flying in your face. • More...
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The never-ending injustice
Gal Keidan was born
In Be’er Sheba
On the 33rd year
Of the occupation,
And grew up to be
A gifted musician
To be shot to death,
A soldier, in the 52nd year
Of the never-ending injustice,
Which... • More...
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Self-evident facts
"The United States is
The state of all its citizens".
"Britain is the state
Of all its citizens".
France is the state
Of all its citizens".
What? Is there somebody
Like Rotem Sela
In all these... • More...
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The permanent status quo
The worst corruption
Of Netanyahu is
Drowning the hope for peace
In a pool of cynicism
And making the Occupation
Into a permanent Status Quo
But for this
No one will
Prosecute him... • More...
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On the moon and on earth
A space probe
Was launched
To have
The Israeli pride on the moon.
On the same day,
Also a bullet was launched
Into the chest of
Youssef Said Hussein al-Dayeh,
15 years old.
The Israeli shame on... • More...
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That's what Occupation does
“You send your kids
To the army, the Territories,
And get them back as beasts.
That's what Occupation does.”
So spoke a TV presenter
And raised a storm.
In this elections campaign
No one speaks... • More...
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Kiling us all
The past week claimed
Three young lives:
* Hassan Shalabi, 14 years old
* Hamza Ishtawi, 18 years old
* Ori Ansbacher, 19 years old
The occupation kills us all! • More...
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Hebron
Sending away from Hebron
The Human Rights observers,
While the settlers stay there,
Is like abolishing
The fire brigade
On a hot, dry summer day. • More...
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A soldier or a settler
Hamdi Taleb Na’asan
38 years old, father of four,
Was shot and killed
In his olive grove.
Who fired the bullet?
A soldier or a settler?
Either way,
Hamdi Taleb Na’asan
Was killed because of
The... • More...
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With a knife
To shoot and kill
A Palestinian with a knife
Is OK. No questions asked.
The policeman in Bat Yam
Thought that it is OK
Also with regard to
A Jewish Israeli -
A black one. • More...
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Sovereignty
The outgoing Army Chief
Boasted that the IDF
Destroyed the tunnels by which
Hezbollah men tried
To violate Israeli sovereignty.
And he also boasted of
Destroying the Syrian
Anti-aircraft... • More...
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Who threw the stones?
The settlers
And their friends
In the political system
Demand an Iron Fist
Against stone-throwers.
That is, in case
It’s Palestinians
Who threw the stones... • More...
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Nutshell Hebron
Also in these elections
A thousand settlers will vote
At an armed enclave
In the middle of Hebron,
While the 200,000 Palestinians
Among whom they chose to live
Will have no vote in
Electing the... • More...
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Let’s get out, already!
Occupation leads to resistance.
Resistance leads to oppression.
Oppression leads to terror and counter-terror.
Usually, the victims of terror
Are innocent people.
Keeping the Occupied Territories... • More...
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Who passes the cash?
The Deputy Mayor
Of Haifa says
That Hamas is not
A terrorist organization.
How terrible!
Might he, God forbid,
Even pass to Hamas
15 Million Dollars
In cash? • More...
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It's not done
The decision of Airbnb
No longer to include
Hosts in settlements
Shouldn't surprise.
One doesn’t
Lodge tourists
In an illegal house. • More...
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Owing us an answer
What was
The urgent need
To send
A secret unit
To a public fiasco
And re-ignite
The Gaza border?
It isn't enough
To praise the fallen officer,
The decision makers
Owe us an answer. • More...
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Last hope
Putin no more
In his pocket,
Trump fluttering
With one wing,
Bolsonaro reconsidering
The embassy move,
Bibi's last hope:
The Saudi Prince… • More...
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Not only Rabin
On Saturday night
At the square
We will, this year,
Think not only of
The murder of Rabin,
But also of the
Pittsburgh slaughter
And the incitement against
Those who care
For the other;
Against... • More...
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It won’t survive
After the
Oslo Accords
Rabin made peace
With Jordan.
But it won’t survive
Without peace
With the Palestinians • More...
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Intolerable
“The situation
Is intolerable!”
Cried out
The Mayor of
Be’er Sheba.
Gaza inhabitants
Would certainly agree.
Their children died
From drinking
Contaminated water,
Because of the siege. • More...
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In the dead of night
Mohammad Zaghloul
Al-Khatib, 24 year old,
Was beaten to death
By soldiers who
Broke into his home
At 4.00 in the night.
Such things happen
When you rule by force
Over millions of people
With no... • More...
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Pressure cooker
Trump is waging
Total war against
The Palestinians.
The pressure cooker
Will explode
In our faces. • More...
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The law starts working
Thugs assault
Arabs.
Settlers assault
Peace activists.
A court okays
Land theft.
In short, the
“Nation State Law”
Starts working. • More...
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Ultimately
Ultimately, also
Uri Avnery's
Greatest opponents
Will have to follow
In his footsteps.
Simply,
There is
No other
Viable option. • More...
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What do they want to know?
The Shabak security
Did not like
The literary works of
Palestinian writer
Lama Khater.
Already for three weeks
She is interrogated
Up to 20 hours per day,
Her hands and legs
Handcuffed to the chair. • More...
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