Haaretz rightly editorialises that listening to the words of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer, Yigal Amir, is vital to understanding his motives. Simply put, he blames political extremists like Ariel Sharon for inspiring his madness.
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Jewish hatred for all to see
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 26: My settler colleague, Israel Harel, his community’s champion at rolling his eyes, playing innocent and speaking with a honeyed tongue, is once again grieving and playing the victim. In a column published here last week (“Have we become Sodom?” October 23), he complained that the reason for what he termed…
The daily Jewish pain
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 16: It’s routine under the occupation: On any night soldiers are liable to raid any house in the territories and do as they wish. Sometimes it ends with nothing, a futile search. Sometimes it ends with arrests. It always involves great fear and sometimes even death, as in the tragic case…
And war approaches
Gideon Levy on the growing racial strife between Arabs and Jews in the supposedly Holy Land.
The screwed-up state
Aluf Benn, Haaretz, October 2: The West Bank separation fence divides Israeli society into two worlds utterly different in their perceptions of reality and of the problems that affect them. On one side are those disturbed by the crisis on Wall Street, by the lack of leadership and the Iranian threat. Few worry about what…
Besieged from the inside?
My latest article for New Matilda discusses the troubles ahead for Israel: Radical Zionists made gains under Ehud Olmert, but their actions are pushing Israel towards catastrophe. The new Prime Minister must stop the settlers, writes Antony Loewenstein In mid-September, during the dying days of his leadership, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert boldly stated that…
Yet another failed leader
As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resigns from the government – and Haaretz editorialises that the young country has never seen a worse premiership – this telling exchange between Olmert and a former cashed-up friend is revealing: ISRAELI PROSECUTOR: Please go on and tell us what you mean by “intense relationship” [with Israeli prime minister…
A complete lack of feeling
A slice of daily life in Palestine under the Israeli jackboot (written by one of the finest journalists in that country, Gideon Levy): Nothing helped. Not the pleas, not the cries of the woman in labor, not the father’s explanations in excellent Hebrew, nor the blood that flowed in the car. The commander of the…
Our ideal stooge
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas tells Haaretz about his position on the right of return: There are today five million Palestinian refugees whose forefathers were expelled from the area of Israel, not from the West Bank and Gaza. We understand that if we demand of you that all five million return to Israel, the State of…
How to kill that Jewish “dream”
Leading Jewish American blogger Phil Weiss – a true friend and ally on Middle East matters – provides wider context to the recent comments by Israeli writer Naomi Ragen: Here’s Naomi Ragen, a writer who seems to split her citizenship between Israel and the U.S., speaking to the Sydney Morning Herald. She’s orthodox, and dismissive…