Tag: Tel Aviv
Pity the Almond Tree
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Pitty the almond tree, especially when it is in full bloom.
The bloom of the almond is, in German, Mandelblüt. That...
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...
From Barak to Trump
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Ehud Barak has "broken the silence". He has published an article in The New York Times attacking our prime minister...
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,...
A Terrible Thought
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Suddenly, a terrible thought struck me. What if Avi Gabbay really believes what he is saying?
Impossible. He cannot really believe...
A History of Idiocy
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am furious. And I have good reason to be furious.
I was going to write an article about a subject...