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At the end of King George Boulevard stood a tall building with two black, cavernous entrances. It served as a brothel, first for Arabs and later for Allied troops. When passing in front of this…
“Are you at peace? Hast thou killed and also taken possession?”
(examples of interrogative sentences in a grammar book)
Do Israelis have one culture or many cultures, or both one culture and many cultures? This question stems from three directions.
One direction is political. The Rabin assassination exposed a deep…
There are now 157 or 162 independent states in the world, both new and old. The vast majority of them are under the sway of oppressive regimes, slavery, mass-brainwashing, ruler-worship: in one way or…
Sometimes, when I return from a trip abroad, I try to imagine that I am a new immigrant. You know, the first time that I arrived in Israel from the Diaspora, with all the pekelech and hopes, and…
For two hundred years, Jews have obsessively sought to achieve two goals—the collective normality of the Jewish people, and the ability to control their own destiny. Since 1782, these goals have been…
It is standard fare at Zionist assemblies to declare that Israel belongs to all Jews, wherever they live. As a ritual to be trotted out on Sabbaths and festivals (and the atmosphere at Zionist…
The pundits are certain that we have turned the page. Have we not relegated collective hatred to history books and referred individual malice to the good care of psychologists? No matter the countless…
In the course of 1948 and the first half of 1949, a number of processes definitively changed the physical and demographic face of Palestine. Taken collectively, they steadily rendered…
In the political drama playing on Israeli television, American Jews are shown as largely supporting Israel’s hard line. During Yitzhak Shamir’s visit to the United States in March, he addressed two…