Tag: Jews
The Call of the Nation
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). A dark wave is submerging democracies all over the Western world. It started in Britain, a land we always saw...
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...
The Call of the Mu’ezzin
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The first mu`ezzin stood on the roof of the prophet Muhammad's home in Medina, during his exile from Mecca, and...
The President-Elect Donald Trump
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The first shock has passed. President-Elect Donald Trump. I am gradually getting used to the sound of these words.
We are...
The Israeli Trumpess
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). What will Donald Trump do if he loses the elections in a week and a half from now, as most...
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....
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...
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...