Shekels as tools of the regime

Salman Masalha Shekels as tools of the regime The issuance of new bills with pictures of writers is a chance for the government to show its concern for Arab citizens - writer Emile Habibi for instance. --- Let’s talk about money and power. More precisely, the subject is...

Tal Nitzan | Maimed Lullaby

Tal Nitzan Maimed Lullaby To Tal Ashraf Abu Khattab, born in Gaza on May 1, 2010 The baby who bears my name is a month and two days old. Unaware she has been born into hell, she wrinkles her tiny nose and balls her hands into fists like babies everywhere. Her four...

If I were an Assad

From the hard disk: An article in Haaretz Magazine, April 19, 1996 How I conducted Syrian policy and gave ideas to Huntington? Salman Masalha If I were an Assad Possibly some kind of imposed solution will put an end to the election fray now making headlines in Lebanon....
MIDDLE EAST
  • War Games

    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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