Tag: Palestine
A Song is Born – Ahed al-Tamimi, the Palestinian Jeanne d’Arc
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). A friend from overseas sent me the recording of a song. An Arab song, with a soft Arab melody, sung by...
“Pour Out Your Wrath”
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I was about to write an article about Pesach eve' when I remembered that I wrote exactly the same article...
Son of a Dog
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). The closer Mahmoud Abbas gets to the end of his reign, the more extreme his language becomes.
Recently he spoke about...
The Fake Enemy
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Towards the end of 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi ally followed...
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...
Bibi’s Son or: Three Men in a Car on a drunken...
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). No, I don't want to write about the affair of Ya'ir Netanyahu. I refuse adamantly. No force in the world...
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,...