Salman Masalha
Those who really love this land understand that it belongs to two peoples. Now, before it is too late, what measures must be taken to allow them to share it...
Zealots and Fools Should Not Oversee Jerusalem Holy Sites
Salman Masalha ||| Zealots Should Not Oversee Holy Sites |
Only objective secularists can safeguard the holiness attributed to these sites, to preserve the holiness of humankind, and prevent bloodshe...
Our troubles come from us
Salman Masalha ||Our troubles come from us
"This week, Israel celebrated its 67th independence day. It is not easy to speak of this event in an Arab newspaper, because the mere mention of Israel's name in the Arab arena arouses many emotions. For the past decades, Israel's name has, in the imagination of Arab peoples, been tied to the name Palestine...
The Spring of the Arab Monarchies
Arab Spring
Published in Arabic: Middle East Transparent [1]
Salman Masalha ||
The Spring of the Arab Monarchies
"Here we are, approaching the end of the fourth year of the uprisings that erupted in more than one country across the Arab world, from East...
Balkrishna Sama || Man Is God
One poem from Nepal
Balkrishna Sama ||
Man Is God
He who loves flowers, has a tender heart.he who cannot pluck their blooms,has a heart that's nobl...
The war racket in the Middle East serves the U.S.
Wages of war
Salman Masalha ||
The war racket in the Middle East serves the U.S.
As a U.S. senator, Kerry was among the lawmakers with the most money invested in companies with Department of Defense contracts and who earned the most from these investment...
Benjamin Zephaniah | Poems
Benjamin Zephaniah
Poems
Dis Poetry
The Death of Joy Gardner
Walking Black Home
Who’s Who
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Why America can't figure out the Middle East
What America fails to see
Salman Masalha ||
Why America can't figure out the Middle East
When you lack history how can you understand societies steeped in the past?...
The right wing and the Arabs of Jewish faith
Salman Masalha ||
The right wing and the Arabs of Jewish faith
Iraqi Jews
Ashkenazi Zionism, which established the country in an ongoing confrontation with the Arab world, created a serious emotional crisis for Jews from Arab countrie...
Sayed Kashua || Israeli Arabs' only hope at the polls
Sayed Kashua ||
Israeli Arabs' only hope at the polls
Dear Salman,
First of all, I hope you’re in good health, and that we will be able to meet
again in Jerusalem. Forgive me for writing you in a newspaper and not in a
personal letter. But this time I felt it was my duty to publish a letter in
response to your recent opinion piece in these...
Why I’m voting Meretz
The
Joint List includes not only the equivalent of Yisrael Beiteinu of the
Arab street, in the form of the Arab nationalism of Balad; but also the
racist parallel of Habayit Hayehudi in the shape of the Islamic
Movement.
Salman Masalha ||
Why I’m voting...
Who is a Zionist?
There is no national solution other than the geographic and national division of the land, with everything that implies: A Hebrew state on one side and an Arab one on the other.
Salman Masalha ||
Who is a Zionis...
Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists
The ‘leftists’ only want to find favor in the eyes of the West, while the Arabs are only looking for honorific titles in the Knesset.
Salman Masalha ||
Israel’s Arabs and liberals are no great leftists
Jews and Arabs in Israel live in two different worlds that rarely overlap. There are Arab towns and Jewish towns. There are also “mixed...
Sahron Olds || Sex Without Love
Sahron Olds ||
Sex Without Love
How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,
Gliding over each other like ice-skaters
over the ice, fingers hook...
Terrorism's roots lie in literal Islam
Islam needs a revolution
Only a root canal of Islam’s ideas can move the Arab and Muslim world toward modernity.
Salman Masalha ||
Terrorism's roots lie in literal Isl...
What’s missing is an Israeli party
Israel’s decent Jewish citizens should vote only for parties that publicly state that Arab MKs must be part of any future government coalition.
Salman Masalha ||
What’s missing is an Israeli par...
