Salman Masalha
Recently I examined Syrian textbooks, and what has emerged? Hundreds of thousands of fatalities and casualties and millions of refugees scattered in every direction make no impression on the Syrian Ministry of Education…
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Write a short essay warning the Zionist enem...
A Palestinian Ben-Gurion
It appears that since the chances for a new Israeli Ben-Gurion’s birth are nil, someone in Israel has begun to wish for a Palestinian one.
Salman Masalha ||
A Palestinian Ben-Gurio...
The Arabs are flocking back to the tribe
Salman Masalha ||
The Arabs are flocking back to the tribe
In the Jewish sector many voters didn’t bother to show up at the polling places for the municipal elections. Some commentators have linked the low turnout to the disappearance of the national political parties from the local scene. By way of contrast, the Arab sector flocked en masse to...
Israeli nationality – there’s no such animal
A lot of religious and nationalist sewage has flowed through the state of Israel’s streams since its establishment…
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Israeli nationality – there’s no such anima...
The code to Damascus
To fathom why the bloody Syrian civil war shows no sign of abating, one has to understand the tribal mentality of the Arab region.
Salman Masalha ||
The code to Damascu...
Saddam Hussein of Damascus
Stop the Syrian regime
There are moments when one cannot stand idly by. The world must stop the killing in Syria.
Salman Masalha ||
Saddam Hussein of Damascus...
Light comes from the West, nostalgia from the Middle East
The Arab world will never be able to improve its future if it keeps harking back to the past.
Salman Masalha ||
Light comes from the West, nostalgia from the Middle Eas...
Lip service will not bring peace
Instead of playing to the gallery of public opinion, Palestinian and Israeli leaders should start telling their people the truth.
Salman Masalha ||
Lip service will not bring peac...
Share the defense burden? Let’s do it!
If the current Arab MKs had any imagination at all, they would submit their own bill obligating every citizen - regardless of ethnicity, religion, race, color and gender - to serve in the Israel Defense Forces. Then we’d see how the 'knights of the equal burden' would vote.
Salman Masalha ||
Share the defense burden? Let’s do it!
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The Islamic Movement is not the answer
Not unlike Jewish fundamentalism, the Islamic Movement is one of the damaging phenomena in Arab society in Israel. The optimal solution in the context of the volatile Israeli mix is legislation prohibiting the establishment of religious parties.
Salman Masalha ||
The Islamic Movement is not the answe...
Getting rid of the nationalism disease
Nationalism is a human illness. When the religion bug is added, the disease becomes metastatic. Before we can realize utopian visions we have to bring the “peoples” back to history.
Salman Masalha || Getting rid of the nationalism dise...
The invisible minority
The Oslo agreements between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel conclusively cut off the Arabs of Israel from the national solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Salman Masalha || The invisible minorit...
Watching the slaughter in Syria
The
horrors across the border do not arouse disgust or revulsion here. The
opposite is true; there are those who continue to organize gatherings in
support of the butcher of Damascus.
Salman Masalha ||
Watching the slaughter in Syri...
On the path to blood, sweat and tears
Why the renewed conflagration in the firing zones was only a matter of time.
Salman Masalha ||
On the path to blood, sweat and tear...
So many parties, so little opportunity
And if nevertheless you want to express resounding protest because you know your Arab vote is of no use in the Jewish state - vote with your feet...
Salman Masalha ||
So many parties, so little opportunit...
On demons and cousins
So did the penny drop, as they say? There is no pleasure like malicious pleasure, but every Arab citizen of Israel who flies abroad has experienced the same heavy hand of the white Zionist who prefers names that end in "ski," "baum" or "blum."
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