“There will be nothing because there is nothing.” That is Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s response to the ongoing investigations against him. Well, there will be something because there is something. Gifts received by Bibi Netanyahu and his family were “given”…
Tag: West Bank
The hot Palestinian summer
e can relax: the disturbances in the Occupied Territories appear to have subsided, and the would-be third Intifada may have skipped over 2012 as it did over 2011. Back then it was supposed to break out after Abu Mazen vainly…
What does Moshe Silman have to do with the Occupation?
The late Moshe Silman’s act of self-immolation rattled the entire country. Both the media and social protest activists have put out heartfelt pleas to try to dissuade others from following suit. But it seems that these calls have gone unheeded.…
Another Round in Gaza
Another round of violence between Israel and Gaza is coming to a close. Gazans count 25 dead so far, while Israel counts the number of rockets that the Iron Dome missile defense system shot down successfully. Both sides, Israel and…
Noxious Comparisons
The Holocaust in Israeli Political Discourse It is taboo in Israel to compare the suffering of the Palestinians with that of the Jews in the holocaust. Anyone who does so is at once ostracized. The latest is film director and…
Israeli Checkpoints and the Soap of Adnan Tbeili
ADNAN TBEILI of Nablus makes soap for Sindyanna of Galilee, which exports it worldwide. Since April this year he has not been able to get a permit to enter Israel. We at Sindyanna have tried to intervene through a lawyer.…
Unconquered: Illegal Palestinian Workers in Israel
One day in 2005, Jonathan Ben Efrat of Video48 noticed Palestinian laborers waiting for jobs at a busy junction on the outskirts of Tel Aviv. Stopping to talk, he learned that they were shabahim, illegal sojourners. To get around the checkpoints…
The Fading of the Two-State Solution
AFTER RETURNING from the Annapolis Conference, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told Haaretz (November 28, 2007) that “the State of Israel cannot endure unless a Palestinian state comes into being.” Olmert had made a like pronouncement in December 2003, when he was…
The Price of Olive Oil
ABU AL-ABED COULD not believe his eyes when he went down to his olive grove in the Deir Hana Valley. It was early November, but the trees were naked of fruit, as if they’d forgotten that it was harvest time…
Sight without Insight
Ruchama Marton, President of Physicians for Human Rights in Israel, made the following remarks at the closing ceremony of a photo exhibit called “Act of State” (July 7 – July 12, 2007; curator: Ariela Azulai). It included 600 pictures taken…