The Casino Republic
February 13, 2015 6:21 pm Leave your thoughts
Money plays an ever-increasing role in politics. Election propaganda is made on television, which is very expensive
Tag Archive: Middle-East
Iraq’s Children: Ever Expendable – From Madeleine Albright to “Save the Children.”
February 11, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
By 2010, seven years in to an unending war, over a quarter of Iraqi children suffered from Post Traumatic Stress disorder
Over Bottled
February 9, 2015 1:13 am Leave your thoughts Everybody knows what the Israeli elections are about. The choice is stark: on the one side, the dream of a Greater Israel "from the sea to the river"; on the other side, an end to the occupation and peace
Zionists All
February 1, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The term Zionism can mean many different things. Like the term socialism, for example. Francois Hollande is a socialist. So was Joe Stalin. Any resemblance?
Galant’s Gallant Act
January 23, 2015 11:23 pm Leave your thoughts There used to be a joke about a sadist and a masochist
Je suis un être humain
January 17, 2015 2:26 pm Leave your thoughts
For the first time in a long lifetime, the events in Paris have left me cold, shocked, speechless and terrified.
Cold because of its inevitable cruelty. Shocked because of the awful response from a hypocritical world. Speechless because there can be nothing I could possibly say to explain the inexplicable - to defend the indefensible. And terrified because I have brown skin, a beard and I am a Muslim Palestinian
Waving in the first Row
January 16, 2015 10:01 pm Leave your thoughts Netanyahu went to Paris as part of his election campaign
Half of Shas
January 10, 2015 12:00 am Leave your thoughts The Shas party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12% threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset
My Glorious Brothers
December 29, 2014 5:21 pm Leave your thoughts When I was 15 years old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today's criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang "(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth'"
Splendid Isolation
December 21, 2014 8:10 pm Leave your thoughts Almost a thousand Israeli personalities have already signed an appeal to European parliaments for their governments to recognize the State of Palestine