Tag: Jordan
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....
The Tunic of Nessus
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). In a few weeks, Israel will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Six-Day War. Millions of words, most of them...
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...
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....
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...
Confessions of a Megalomaniac
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). THE ARAB taxi driver who brought me to Ramallah had no trouble with the Israeli border posts. He just evaded...
Remember Naboth
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). An incredible piece of legislation is now being debated in Jerusalem.
The country is busy with a settlement called Amona. There,...
Optimism of the Will
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). So now we have another anti-Semite. Mazal Tov ("good luck") as we say in Hebrew.
His name is Ban Ki-moon, and...