Salman Masalha
What are they finding so interesting here about Benjamin Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman running on the same ticket? After all, both of them have been in the same coalition for many years now and no one is able to point to any ideological difference between them.
Salman Masalha || Boycott the electio...
They see not, nor know
'Neutralizing' East Jerusalem:
A day before the start of Operation Pillar of Defense, Nir Hasson revealed the Nature and Parks Authority's plan to establish a national park on the eastern slopes of Mount Scopus. According to Peace Now, the park "is meant to create a corridor...
Barak and Hussein are waiting for Obama
Mr. President, if you do not bring an end to this bloody conflict, you will be asked to do something else: return that Nobel Prize given to you when you started out.
Salman Masalha ||
Barak and Hussein are waiting for Oba...
Preparing the ground for the big Iranian operation
War on Gaza: Pillar of Cloud, Pillar of Defence
The current operation in Gaza can be called 'the little southern Iranian operation,' since it's designed to paralyze Iran's power in Gaza.
Salman Masalha ||
Preparing the ground for the big Iranian operatio...
Rabin was murdered as an Israeli
In order to achieve the Israeli-Zionist goal he crossed the red lines drawn by the standard bearers of the Jewish tribe.
Salman Masalha || Rabin was murdered as an Israeli...
There's no one to vote for
For Israeli Arabs, there's no one to vote for:
A secular, liberal, democratic and fair-minded Arab citizen can't vote for either parties that support the Butcher of Damascus and his ilk, as Hadash and Balad do, or a separatist Muslim party like UAL.
Salman Masalha || There's no one to vote for...
Royal corruption
Is it conceivable that foreign governments are buying political parties and public figures in Israel?
Salman Masalha || Royal corruption...
About The Latest French Stance
Archive: Al-Hayat , 2003/12/28
There is no doubt that any progressive Arab should bless the French president in his attempt to protect France's secularism.
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The Arab League Between Internet And Grammar
Archive: Al-Hayat 1/02/2004
The Internet revolution might be a double-edged sword. In fact, Internet might be the ultimate source of knowledge that links the four corners of the planet by the means of a computer. However, Internet might also be a tool to spread ignorance and vulgar taste.
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The Arab League Between Internet...
The dwarfs of Oslo
The Oslo Accords were merely a trick, a deception. The Israelis sought to maintain the occupation, while the Palestinians sought to regain legitimacy.
Salman Masalha || The dwarfs of Oslo
In 1993, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to two African leaders: Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk. The award went to them for bringing to an end the...
The Third Lebanon War
The decision-maker is trying to kill two birds with one war. The first is neutralizing the threat from the north and the second – returning Iran to its proper place in the East, vulnerable to pressure.
Salman Masalha || The Third Lebanon War
Once again the gears of war are turning and the pressure is ratcheting up, as everyone knows that every seven...
The Crimes Of The Regime And Of The Opposition
What is happening now in the Syrian arena, and has been happening for months, is the best proof of the ruin and desolation [that afflict] this land – except that this desolation, which is essentially a moral desolation, is not new.
Salman Masalha
The Crimes Of...
Social injustice by popular demand
Time has come to say these things loud and clear: I do not have the slightest shred of sympathy for the bearers of slogans like “social justice,” “equality in the burden” and other such utterances from the Zionist workshop and its ilk.
Salman Masalha ||Social injustice by popular demand
It has been decreed, we are told, that we must pay the salaries...
The pit and the pendulum
Archieve (2001):In those days, we did not drink four goblets of wine, because everything that gladdens the human heart is not a part of our custom.
Salman Masalha ||The pit and the pendulum
Memory isn’t made of metal and therefore it does not rust. To put it mildly, this might sound strange. However, for us, the second generation of the Nakba, the...
The lie about rights and duties
The injustice that is being done to the Druze is an in-built Zionist matter.
Salman Masalha || The lie about rights and duties
We are not going to discuss how to get the desert to bloom here but rather how the public discourse in Israel is made devoid of content. Many people with bad intentions take part in the attempt to cover our eyes and block...
A pinprick in the “equal burden” balloon
Sometimes the use of the oriental imagination is needed like air to breathe. I have often argued that attributing oriental imagination to the Arabs is tantamount to slander...
Salman MasalhaA pinprick in the “equal burden” balloon
One fine day Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu awoke from a bad coalition dream and discovered the incredible. He scratched...
Under his vine and under his anthem
Before we arrive at the fulfillment of Isaiah’s utopian vision, even in a small way, it is necessary first of all for the wolf and the lamb to live each of them under his own respective vine and respective national anthem.
Salman Masalha || Under his vine and under his anthem
Some people think the situation in the territories is irreversible...
No Grass in the Arab world
The murderous Ba’ath regime, which pretended to be the standard bearer of Arab nationalism, is the bloody testimony to the failure of that nationalism.
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No Grass in the Arab world
When Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini came into power in Iran, the well-known Syrian poet Adonis hastened to publish a paean of praise of the...
Nakba not yet lost
The Nakba is alive for both Jews and Arabs:
Salman Masalha || Nakba not yet lost
Let's set aside for a moment the discourse about human rights and the debate about natural rights, because no salvation will come from them. Moreover, they will never lead to a solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On the contrary, they pour oil on...
For Jews only
Israel's new cabinet is driven by Jewish messianic fervor...Salman Masalha || For Jews onlyOur lawmakers had a sleepless night last week, although it was much ado about nothing. There is nothing new under the Israeli political sun. Ehud Barak may have feared losing his commanding position. Maybe Shas' chief feared the lion breathing down his neck,...
The reluctant philanthropists
Horsemen of the handout:Today the halukkah comes from the working public. This public - both Jews and Arabs - pays taxes and bears the burden, and in recent years it has taken the place of the 'new philanthropist.'Salman Masalha || The reluctant philanthropistsIn the middle...
Welcome, racists
Inaction over Syria reveals anti-Arab racism:
Rather than the fly-in serving as a 'Welcome to Palestine,' as the organizers called the protest campaign, it was aimed at expressing solidarity with Israel and stressing the extent to which Israel belongs to the activists' cultural fami...
Patriot games
Letting Israeli expats vote is a political manipulation:
The Israeli legal system desperately needs an important new law, and this electoral law must include a very 'patriotic' clause - that any Israeli who has a foreign passport will not have the right to vote here.
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Fata Morgana
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Fata Morgana
Vanishes into mist
Roams like rain that pours
He’s holding in his fist
A book from years of yore
Appears, then is no more
Like dew in the day’s first blush
In stories shared aloud
His soul behind a door
Half his heart is melted cloud
The other half is crushedOnly vanishing existsO, what kind of news is this!Here...
Between the devil and Iran
Israel's occupation fills an ancient Mideast need for evil:Among other things, the Arab-Israeli conflict serves as a tool of manipulation for the Iranians in their drive to restore Persian glory.
Salman Masalha || Between the devil and Iran
First of all, when it comes to...
The decay in the Arab world
Assad is a symbol of The decay in the Arab world:
With great sadness, it can be said that in the absence of a sane civil alternative, the Arab world will continue along this path.
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The decay in the Arab world
Bashar Assad, who is continuing...
Ebrahim Nabavi || A Contract Between the Ayatollahs and God
Ebrahim Nabavi :A Contract Between the Ayatollahs and God
It was recently reported in the Iranian press that Jaafar Shajooni, a mid-level but influential cleric who heads the prayer leaders association had said that God had signed a contract with the ayatollahs, entrusted much to them. Here is my take on the text of such an agreement.
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Contract...
