On Thursday, February 11, the DAAM Party held a public debate focused on Jerusalem. The discussion presented a difficult and alarming picture of a divided city in which hundreds of thousands of Palestinian residents live in extremely difficult conditions. Conversely,…
Category: Opinion
Gazans Want to Live
“We want to live” is the rallying call that has mobilized thousands of young Gazans against the Hamas regime on an unprecedented scale. These youngsters have lost their trust and patience. They do not believe that rockets, balloons, incendiary kites,…
Thomas Friedman and the one-state solution
“Are we still debating the two-state solution? Or is it time for another conversation, that is: What agreement is best within the framework of a single bi-national state from the Jordan to the sea?” Nahum Barnea received this response…
Fateful misconception: Israel’s Russia mistake
As anyone can see, Israel’s course of action in Syria is aimed at preventing Iranian entrenchment there. Its strategy is understandable but impractical. This does not appear to bother Israel, which prides itself on solving complex problems by one simple…
Israeli labor leader allies with extreme Right
Mr. Avi Nissenkorn, who chairs the biggest Israeli Trade Union federation, the Histadrut, recently announced support for Ze’ev Elkin in the race for mayor of Jerusalem. Mr. Elkin serves currently as the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs in Netanyahu’s government and…
Israel’s undeclared war on Iran
Last November, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman visited Saudi Arabia, sat in a spacious armchair in the palace of Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman, aka MBS, and went on to write a piece in The New York Times…
Last-Ditch Myths of the Zionist Left
From its beginning, the State of Israel has existed in a cleft stick between the concepts “Jewish state” and “democracy.” Every now and then something happens to bring the cleft into focus. Presently, it is the ruckus around border-crossing Azmi…
“Future Vision”: Israel’s Arab Elite and Reality
TOWARD THE END of 2006 several Arab groups in Israel published documents seeking to redefine their people’s status and calling for an egalitarian (instead of a Jewish) state. Mossawa put out An Egalitarian Constitution for All. Adalah published The Democratic Constitution. The…
The Cultural Boycott: Punishing the Wrong Side
AT THE HEIGHT of the second Lebanon War, on August 4, 2006, 123 Palestinian filmmakers and artists, joined by 349 others, called on their colleagues “around the world to cancel all exhibitions and other cultural events that are scheduled to…
Spreading the Stain: Anti-Zionism or Anti-Semitism
IN late July, responding to anti-Semitic incidents in France, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called on French Jews to immigrate. French president Jacques Chirac responded by informing Sharon he was persona non grata in Paris. Manifestations of anti-Semitism have indeed been on…