Recent Posts Tagged With 'ha'aretz'

• It’s Clear Who He Takes His Orders From

  Posted on Tuesday October 6th, 2009 at 14:50 in United States, palestine, abbas, palestinian authority, ha'aretz

  The decision by the United Nations Human Rights Council to delay the vote on the findings of its report into the Gaza conflict – in line with a request by the Palestinian Authority – has shocked the Palestinian public. Palestinian source...

• Cheapening the Holocaust

  Posted on Friday September 25th, 2009 at 13:24 in Israel, United Nations, Holocaust, netanyahu, ha'aretz

  No less demagogic was his attack on the Iranian regime. They shoot demonstrators there, he protested vehemently. As if they don’t do that in our Bil’in and Na’alin. Then came the kicker: Operation Cast Lead was a pinpoint attack. I...

• Unreasonable Sympathy

  Posted on Tuesday September 22nd, 2009 at 07:43 in Israel, Film, protest, military occupation, ha'aretz

  The real question is why the image of an Israeli soldier, agonizing and crying, is so appealing to festival curators and audiences of the western world? When we find the answer to this question, we will be able to comprehend the unreasonable, interna...

• Moral Narcissism

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 22:01 in Israel, Gaza, amnesty international, human rights watch, hass, breaking the silence, b'tselem, ha'aretz

  B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Haaretz and the international media – to Israelis, these have all fallen into the trash bin of the mendacious Pales...

• This From an Israeli “Dove”

  Posted on Wednesday September 16th, 2009 at 07:43 in Israel, United Nations, Gaza, peres, ha'aretz

  President Shimon Peres said Wednesday that the Goldstone report, which accuses Israel of committing war crimes during its military offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip earlier this year, “makes a mockery of history.” (full articleR...

• I Dedicate My “Antiwar” Film To Those Who Kill

  Posted on Sunday September 13th, 2009 at 18:24 in Israel, Film, ha'aretz

  “I dedicate this work to people all over the world that come back from the war safe and sound,” the director told the audience at the award ceremony. “They work, get married, have children, but the memories get stuck in their souls....

• Not For Everyone

  Posted on Thursday September 10th, 2009 at 10:42 in Israel, nationalism, militarism, military occupation, ha'aretz

  The concept of “a year in Israel, a love for a lifetime,” as the MASA slogan says, is misleading. Isn’t there a single tourist, either Jewish or non-Jewish, who after visiting here swore never to set foot in this place again? The vi...