Tag: Gaza Strip
Thank you, Smotrich
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I owe many thanks to Bezalel Smotrich. Yes, yes, to Smotrich of the extreme right, Smotrich the fascist.
Recently Smotrich gave a...
Eyeless in Gaza
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I have a unique confession to make: I like Gaza.
Yes, I like this far-away corner of Palestine, the narrow strip...
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,...
Palestine’s Nelson Mandela
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I have a confession to make: I like Marwan Barghouti.
I have visited him at his modest Ramallah home several times....
Perhaps the Messiah will Come
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). If someone had told me 50 years ago that the rulers of Israel, Jordan and Egypt had met in secret...
The Cannons of Napoleon
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Napoleon came to a German town and was not welcomed with the traditional artillery salute.
Furious, he summoned the mayor and...
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...
Being There – Donald Trump will be the entertainer-president
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Perhaps he is lying all the time.
Perhaps he is lying about being a liar.
Perhaps he is cheating about being a...
Don’t Send Him!
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Donald Trump has spat in my face. Not only in my own face, but in the faces of at least...
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...