Tag: Arab
The Arabs did it – The Great Fire in Greater Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). When my parents married in Germany, just before World War I, among the gifts was a document attesting that a...
The Call of the Mu’ezzin
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The first mu`ezzin stood on the roof of the prophet Muhammad's home in Medina, during his exile from Mecca, and...
The President-Elect Donald Trump
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The first shock has passed. President-Elect Donald Trump. I am gradually getting used to the sound of these words.
We are...
The Lesser Evil – Who will win the elections in the...
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Who will win the elections in the US in three days?
I know for sure. No need to ask the public...
The Kissinger Story
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am writing this (may God forgive me) on Yom Kippur.
Exactly 43 years ago, at this exact moment, the sirens...
The Funeral Ruckus
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Shimon Peres would have enjoyed it. A public battle about his funeral.
The Arab members of the Knesset did not attend....
Abu-Mazen’s Balance Sheet
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Mahmoud Abbas was not present at my first meeting with Yasser Arafat during the siege of Beirut in the First...
Lucky Bibi
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). "Give me generals who have luck!" Napoleon once exclaimed.
Which reminds one of Goethe's Faust, who complained that "the fools never...
Olympic Jews?
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The scene at Ben-Gurion airport this week was rather astonishing.
More then a thousand young male fans came to welcome the...
“Us” and “Them”
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). No. It's not "us" and "them".
Not "us" – the good ones, the moral ones, the righteous ones. Or, to put...