Tag: Tel Aviv
The Saga of Sisyphus – On the death of Shimon Peres
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Shimon Peres is a genius. A genius of impersonation.
All his life he has worked on his public persona. The image...
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...
The Great Railway Scandal – Merkel is a moral heroine, Netanyahu...
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I am not the envious type, but I envy the Germans.
I envy them for Angela Merkel.
Merkel did something that was...
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...
Hatred Unlimited
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). A palestinian youngster breaks into a settlement, enters the nearest house, stabs a 13-year old girl in her sleep and...
Just a Trick
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). Once I heard the following story from the then Swedish ambassador in Paris: "In 1947, when the UN was discussing...
The Day of the Rhinos
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). I recently mentioned the German word Gleichschaltung – one of the most typical words in the Nazi vocabulary.
"Gleich" means "the...
The Center Doesn’t Hold
Tel Aviv, Israel (Weltexpress). "The best lack all convictions, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity!"
Is there a better description of what...
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