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. Salman...

Fata Morgana

Salman Masalha ||  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...
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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