Tag: East Jerusalem
Yitzhak Rabin – The Siamese Twins
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker's TV series "The Captains",...
The Real Victor
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). On the fifth day of the six-day war in 1967, I published an open letter to the Prime Minister, Levy...
The Man Who Jumped
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Nobody described the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict better than the historian Isaac Deutscher.
A man lives in a house that...
Two Meetings
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). During the last few days, I met with two old friends: Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin.
Well, the term "friends" may...
Whoso Confesseth and Forsaketh
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). In the tumult of the last few days, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the "unification" of Jerusalem,...
Greetings for Diana Buttu
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). According to the Oslo agreement, the negotiations for ending the occupation should have reached their goal in 1999. Since then,...
President Kong
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I knew he reminded me of somebody, but I couldn't quite place it. Who was it who pounded his chest...
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...
When God Despairs
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Right after the foundation of Israel, God appeared to David Ben-Gurion and told him: "You have done good by my...
Optimism of the Will
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). So now we have another anti-Semite. Mazal Tov ("good luck") as we say in Hebrew.
His name is Ban Ki-moon, and...