Tag: Jews
A Curious National Home
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The present Israeli government coalition consists of 67 (out of 120) members of the Knesset.
Each member wants to be elected...
One, Two, Three – Rejoice!
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I remember the first few Independence Days, just after the foundation of the State of Israel. There was spontaneous jubilation,...
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...
The Great Rift
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I believe I was the first to recommend that the soldier Elor Azaria, the killer of Hebron, be granted a...
How did it Start? – The Israeli-Palestinian conflict began when the...
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). So how the hell did it all start?
Last week I tried to describe the 1948 war, starting from the shooting...
That’s How It Happened
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). After my last article, in which I mentioned that the Arabs started the 1948 war after the partition resolution of...
Respect the Green Line!
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The most incisive analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict I have ever read was written by the Jewish-Polish-British historian Isaac Deutscher....
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...
Anti-Semitic Zionists
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). What really got me was the applause.
There they were sitting at the round table, the representatives of the entire world,...