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Sunday in Gondor
 While the world was treated to another sham performance of peace process in Palestine, and just before the next stage of Middle East war, I paid a visit to the Ethiopians, much loved by Poseidon, the Sea God – probably because these landlocked people do not disturb the seas but inhabit high plateau which also gives birth to Nile. ‘The farthest outposts of the Race of Man’, as Homer called them, Ethiops, poor as they are, preserved many things we have lost
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Domingo en Gondor
The Tsunami of Penitence
Israel is a good place to watch the giant wave of gentile penitence, the Auschwitz Remembrance Day that lasts for a week, rolling around the globe. Sure, you can observe it everywhere like lunar eclipse, this colossal Canossa: the entire world from Alaska to Antarctica, Inuit and Zulu, Cuban and Mongol stand still listening to the Jewish prayer, beg forgiveness and promise “never again a Jew will come to harm”. MORE
Le tsunami de la repentance
El tsunami de la penitencia
Russians in the Holy Land
Quarter of a century ago (time runs fast!), when Israel was far more intimate than it is today, when we did not value privacy and did not know how to spell it, I left my kibbutz in Galilee and moved into a house in Jaffa to share it with few families. Such an arrangement was quite common these days. MORE
Tsunami in Gaza
 Only people, who can’t bear the thought of being buried in one grave with a goy, can’t imagine the possibility of staying as equals without the army and colonial administration to enforce their superiority. … There is no reason to play into the game of Jewish exclusivity, whether in Thailand or in Gaza. MORE
Tsunami à Gaza
The Second Coming
A positive view of fundamentalism
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An Island of Faith
Esoteric Orthodox Christianity is a well hidden secret of Greece – people are aware of Zorba the Greek and of sunny islands, but if they would know they would come here with their spiritual search, not to Sufis or Zen Buddhists; as besides being wonderful this faith is easier accessible for a Westerner. The monks are learned men; some hail from Australia and Russia, France and Palestine. The abbot Vasileios studied in Lyon; he appreciates Pindar and Dostoyevsky. This is a good place to recognise an unknown victim of the Iraqi war: Christianity. MORE
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ZENO’S ARROW
We shall win the war if and when we win the argument. This has been my conviction since 1991, when I witnessed how the mighty nuclear superpower collapsed because they had lost a philosophical dispute. In the battle for Palestine the same rule may apply. Our adversary is protected by mighty Stealth technology made out of the best sophisms but he has his Achilles’ Heel, and Apollo may still point it out to our archer Paris. MORE
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"The problem isn’t Iran, Iraq or North Korea; it's Israeli aggression." |
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Mordechai Vanunu:
An Interview By Johannes Wahlstrom |
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A technician at the Dimona nuclear weapons production plant, he blew the whistle, and revealed the Israeli nuclear arms program to the nation and the world; a revelation that would cost him dearly. After being kidnapped Israeli Mossad agents in Rome, Vanunu was sentenced at a secret trial to 18 years of jail, 12 years out of them he served in solitary confinement. In the solitude of the jail, he wrote MORE
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For 18 long years until today
Mordechai Vanunu was buried alive in its super-secret
Agaf Seven, ever since he was kidnapped in Europe by
Mossad spies and illegally brought to be tried and
imprisoned here. Vanunu committed a double crime for he
defied the Jewish state by disclosing the secret of its
evil nuclear might and by embracing Christ. For this he
was kept in solitary confinement; hour upon hour, day
upon day, year after year under lidless eyes of Mossad
watchers. This would be enough to break spirit of an
ordinary man, to drive him into release of insanity, as
his tormentors wished. But they failed for he was not an
ordinary man.
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Children
of a
Lesser God
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In Berlin, the high
and mighty including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, German
President Johannes Rau and Israel's president, Moshe Katsav gathered
for a Conference of the Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe (OSCE) dedicated to the struggle against anti-Semitism.
They proclaimed that “the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is serving as
a cover for worldwide anti-Semitic sentiment” as Ha'aretz
reported today. I was not invited to this gathering, but if I were,
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Daniel Cohn-Bendit
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Danny the Blue
& White
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For my
generation, the name of Danny the Red, or Daniel Cohn-Bendit, is
forever connected to Paris and the glorious revolution of 1968, to
Godard’s La Chinoise and Antonioni’s Zabriski Point, to ‘It is
forbidden to forbid’ graffiti in universities, to long haired
hippies, to marijuana and free love, to barricades in Paris and
Berkeley and to the sweet wind of freedom that swept across the
continents. Like its great predecessor, the Spring of Nations in
1848, the 1968 uprising failed but it transformed Europe and the US.
Danny the Red was a mover of the revolution and a great source of
inspiration for those of us who sought freedom and equality.
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Read in French (Danny
le Bleu et Blanc)
Read in German (Der
weissblaue Danny)
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Five To Midnight
The Jewish state is an extremely dangerous bundle of goods.
It is part of Israeli military doctrine: act crazy, and people will
be scared of you. The bogus threat of nuclear Iraq was modelled on
the real threat of nuclear Israel. Its scientists practice chemical
and biological warfare, as well. They actually tried nerve gas on
demonstrators in Gaza, and water poisoning at the siege of Acre, as
reported Abu Sitta in Al-Ahram. Unless peacefully dismantled, the
Jewish state will go down in nuclear flames...TOP
Read in French (Minuit
moins...)
Walking on Eggs
The NY Times is a bountiful spring of instructions to
perplexed mankind. Its editors appointed by Mr Sulzberger
(apparently, God's representative on earth) have an advice for
everybody: what should the French do with their cheese (pasteurise
and shove it you-know-where), Russians with their media (give it to
Mr Gusinsky, a coreligionist of Mr Sulzberger), Chinese with their
country (open it to Enron) and Palestinians with themselves (die,
soonest). Now from their Mt Sinai on the 5th Avenue they conferred
on grateful humanity a new commandment penned by Ian Buruma,
directing us How to Talk about Israel. Yes, it is delicate task.
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The Wise Raven is Dead
A few days ago died my great countryman Edward Said, and our
comrades-in-arms wrote obituaries tolling like copper bells in the
air of his native Jerusalem. They stressed goodness of his heart,
expanse of his knowledge, his relentless support for the downtrodden
of Palestine. But to my ears, the most pleasing obituary to Said was
that composed by his and our enemy, one Zev Chafets, who wrote in an
American Zionist (well, aren’t they all?) paper The New York Daily
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Read the Russian version (Said
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Is the Intifada over?
(Reading Chaucer in the Holy Land) |
"The Palestinian Intifada is over, and the Palestinians have lost"- - |
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thus proclaimed the Jewish American columnist Charles Krauthammer in the Washington Post (June 18, 2004). Armed resistance has dwindled; there are no attacks on Israeli civilians; the Palestinians have been brought to their knees, thanks to the assassination of Palestinian leadership and to the Wall that has locked the unruly natives in their
ghettos, wrote the Zionist stalwart. Is it true? Is the resistance over, and has the Holy Land been surrendered to the victor? Well, up to a point: MORE
Tiens donc, l'Intifada est terminée ?
L'Intifada e' finita?
Terminó la Intifada?
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The French Malaise
Tartarin à Marseille
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Tarascon is as French as they come.
A charming and tiny Provençal village outside the high
crenellated walls of an old chateau on the high bank of Rhone
lies in a pleasant country full of sunlight, thistle, rough wine
and Mistral poetry. But for the river, it is very similar to my
arid Palestine; and indeed, an ingenious and liberated
Palestinian girl Nicolette was wooed here by the heir to
Beaucaire castle, young Aucassin, in a 13th-century fable.
Tarascon’s church (bombed in 1940’s by the ubiquitous US Air
Force) is old enough to remember their oaths. But Tarascon’s
chief claim to posterity is due to a novel by the bard of the
South, Alphonse Daudet[1]. There is a monument to its main
character, Tartarin, an epitome of a Southern peasant, a jovial,
earthly but boastful type who is getting carried away by his
imagination and invariably gets cold feet.
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