Tag: Israel
Go in Peace!
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I have a confession to make: I don't hate Binyamin Netanyahu. I don't hate Sara'le either.
I generally don't hate people....
Pity the Almond Tree
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Pitty the almond tree, especially when it is in full bloom.
The bloom of the almond is, in German, Mandelblüt. That...
The Jumping Parliament
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Years ago, when I was a member of the Knesset, I decided to stage a demonstration in the plenum hall.
I...
May Your Home Be Destroyed
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). When I first met Yasser Arafat in besieged Beirut, in the summer of 1982, Abu Mazen was not present. But...
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...
Cry, Beloved Country
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Anyone proposing the death penalty is either a complete fool, an incorrigible cynic or mentally disturbed – or all of...
Children of Stones
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). For God's sake, are they crazy?
They congregate in the marketplace, boys of 15, 16 years, take stones and throw them...
King and Emperor
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Zionism is an anti-Semitic creed. It was so right from the beginning.
Already the founding father, Theodor Herzl, a Viennese writer,...
A Terrible Thought
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Suddenly, a terrible thought struck me. What if Avi Gabbay really believes what he is saying?
Impossible. He cannot really believe...
A History of Idiocy
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am furious. And I have good reason to be furious.
I was going to write an article about a subject...