All photos by activestills.org ISRAEL likes to indulge in the illusion that it is part of Western Europe or one of the United States. Its border with Egypt, however, serves as a reminder concerning its location: in the Middle East, adjoining…
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Arab Women in Israel: Obstacles to Emancipation
This article is based on a paper that is to appear in Erella Shadmi (editor), Hazon Isha: Nashim Borot Olamot Hadashim (The Vision of Woman: Women Create New Worlds), in Hebrew, 2008. JUST a few yards separate Jisr al-Zarqa from Caesarea.…
Economic Warfare in Gaza
NO MORE LIES lies or twisted tongues. Israel is saying at last what, in the past, it always refused to acknowledge: its war is against the Palestinian population. Until now, in discussions about the separation wall, closures, blockades, house demolition,…
The PeaceMaker
I have succeeded in making peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. In an interview preceding the Annapolis Conference, PA negotiator Saeb Erakat claimed that peace could be delivered in half an hour. The basis, everyone already knows, is the…
Post Zionist Israel: The Rules Have Changed
Adapted from a paper discussed at the annual seminar of the Organization for Democratic Action, October 2007 DURING the past thirty years, but especially in the last decade, Israel has undergone major economic change. Ownership of the economy has shifted…
Bil’in: (Partial) Triumph in a Political Vacuum
While the Israeli Occupation hardens and the Fatah/Hamas split deepens, a remote little village near Ramallah has celebrated a victory. This is Bil’in. It went to the Israeli High Court and won a change in the route of the Separation…
The Mugrabi Gate: Dig We Must?
IN FEBRUARY 2004, the ramp leading up to the Mugrabi Gate in the al-Aqsa compound partly collapsed, and a temporary wooden structure was erected. In February 2007, Israel began building a permanent bridge to the gate. A Jerusalem law ordains…
The Late Shuhada Street, Hebron
IT’S A GHOST TOWN,” says a friend as we walk through deserted Shuhada Street, once a bustling thoroughfare of Hebron. The sun slides off the neat green metal bolted-shut storefronts and scalloped edges of the overhangs, highlighting the Hebrew graffiti:…
In Dixieland
IT WOULD APPEAR that the IDF Commander for the Central Region, headquartered at Bethel in the West Bank, wanted to come up with a creative gesture to aid us in remembering the late Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Parks…
Take Your Family and Scram
IT WOULD APPEAR that the IDF Commander for the Central Region, headquartered at Bethel in the West Bank, wanted to come up with a creative gesture to aid us in remembering the late Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955, Parks…