Reaching Gandhi in Our Times


I re-read Gandhiji, but the texts did not translate into painting. How to retrieve him from his busts and statuary on the road side corners, city squares, from postage stamps and rupee notes?

The Pillars of Netanyahu’s ‘Peace’


To study the nonsensical nature of Netanyahu’s rhetoric about regional peace, it is wise to return to the source, to his original habitat

Israeli Arab Lawmakers on LGBTQ People


This violent discourse has exposed not only the depth of denial in Arab society of the very existence of an LBGTQ community in its midst

Israeli Arabs, it’s time to play the political game till the end



It is clear to any intelligent person that advancing the interests of Arab citizens, a minority, cannot bear results without participating in the countries institutions of power and without the support of the Jewish majority.

The Israeli Election as a Racist Festival



The difference between Benny Gantz and Yitzhak Rabin

As long as things continue to operate along tribal, ethnic and religious lines here, there can be no hope.
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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