World War Bibi
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
Yesterday 9th of September, Netanyahu claimed he’d identified a third secret nuclear site in Iran where Iran allegedly “conducted experiments to develop nuclear weapons.” Yet, despite the hyperbole no one seemed to take Netanyahu ...
Please, Bibi, let the annexations begin
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
There’s no longer any real debate in Israel. The right wants to annex Palestinian land openly, and the center wants to annex, but deceive us. All that’s left now is to admit to the world that in reality Israel annexed the West Bank many years ...
The jeep was late
Daily life in the occupied West Bank
- Amira Hass عميرة هاس עמירה הס
When your children are too lazy to go to school, tell them about the man in the yellow shirt, and about the man in the purple shirt with the inscription “Regavim Ba’emek,” who is armed with two German shepherd dogs. No, not so your ...
The Israeli anti-Netanyahu camp is longing for a country that never was
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
Long before Netanyahu's attacks on Channel 12, nearly all of Israel’s media was in service to the government
The Israeli Editors' Committee in 1958, with the late former PM Shimon Peres. Photo Herman Haniya / GPO
The hatred for Benjamin ...
Tanks and tourists on the Israel-Lebanon border: the epicentre of the war that wasn't
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
A tour of the north on the day after the exchange of fire between Hezbollah and Israel
The barrier under construction to separate Israel and Lebanon. A wound in the landscape, it recalls the walls in the West Bank and along the Gaza border. ...
Sowing seeds of resistance: The fight for food sovereignty in Palestine
- Anne Paq - Sandra Guimarães
Food sovereignty in Palestine is inextricably linked to the fight for self-determination. Land dispossession in Palestine began in 1948 when 78 per cent of historical Palestine became Israel. Since 1967, the remaining 22 per cent of land – now ...
Who Owns Jerusalem?
- Suleiman Mourad
Since Israel’s occupation of Jerusalem in 1967, the issue of “ownership” of the city has been a bitter conflict between the Palestinian and Israeli communities. It has major political, religious, social and legal consequences. ...
The tragic hike that tas nothing to do with the landscape and land
- Amira Hass عميرة هاس עמירה הס
The spring of Ein Bubin, where Rina Shnerb was killed, is still accessible to the villagers of Dir Ibzi. Neighboring springs have been taken over by Israeli settlers proudly boasting that Palestinians are 'rarely seen there anymore'
In the past ...
If there’s such a thing as a murderous culture, then it exists in Israel
- Gideon Levy جدعون ليفي גדעון לוי
This is what the editor of Haaretz’s Culture and Literature supplement, Benny Ziffer, wrote on his Facebook page upon returning from paying a condolence call in the settlement of Ofra: “En route I looked at the Palestinian villages alongside ...
Is Lisbon the New Jerusalem?
A soaring number of Israelis acquired Portuguese citizenship
- Gilad Atzmon جيلاد أتزمون گيلاد آتزمون
In 2015, the governments of both Spain and Portugal passed laws to allow descendants of Sephardic Jews to apply for citizenship and a passport. Four years later, we learn that the Israeli press has proclaimed that “millions” of ...
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