Tag: Israel
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....
The Triumph of Sisyphus – Memories of Shimon Peres
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). David Ben-Gurion was not buried in the Great of the Nation portion of the national cemetery in Jerusalem, but next...
The Saga of Sisyphus – On the death of Shimon Peres
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Shimon Peres is a genius. A genius of impersonation.
All his life he has worked on his public persona. The image...
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...
The Great Railway Scandal – Merkel is a moral heroine, Netanyahu...
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am not the envious type, but I envy the Germans.
I envy them for Angela Merkel.
Merkel did something that was...
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...
Hatred Unlimited
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). A palestinian youngster breaks into a settlement, enters the nearest house, stabs a 13-year old girl in her sleep and...