Dreams

Salman Masalha Dreams ............................ To Rumi Beyond my door which faces west Lives a woman who'll never rest. She likes to tease my nomad soulWith words she keeps for gloomy fall.But now she flies across the sky,And tries to find a place too highTo paint it blue for me to lookAnd...

An MK by any other name

How European Zionism has corrupted 'Jewish Arabs' Salman Masalha An MK by any other name Carmel Shama was fed up, so the lawmaker decided it was time to reconnect with his ethnic roots. Responding to all the confusion over his identity, he asked the Interior Ministry...

Logic for Jews only

It seems Professor Avineri is cutting the very branches of logic he seeks to hold on to, one after the other. Salman Masalha Logic for Jews only Professor Shlomo Avineri raises difficult questions and wishes to discuss them, adding: "Anyone who, like me, supports a solution...
MIDDLE EAST
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    Israel also needs Iran. Just as Iran calls Israel the Little Satan (compared to the great American one), Israel also portrays Iran as the devil incarnate...
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  • Arab Nationalism?

    The past several years have provided decisive proof that all the pompous Arab slogans from the ideological school of the Syrian and Iraqi Ba’ath parties...
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ISRAEL-PALESTINE
  • For Jews only

    The Jewish messianic understanding of the "Land of Israel" is what dictated the move. Now Netanyahu will surely find a way around the High Court with general Jewish support.
  • Make way for Barghouti

    As long as Abbas bears the title “president of Palestine,” he will keep sitting there praising Palestine. But he will be bearing this name in vain...
 

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