Posts under ‘peace’

I haven’t posted in a few weeks and before resuming normal service, I want to explain why I was taking time off. It all started with the Gaza flotilla. People on Twitter began attacking me like I was the head of Shin 13 (the Israeli Seals). I’m used to attacks on Israel, but the flotilla [...]

Israeli Independence Day My apologies for another “heavy duty” post today. It’s sort of a “heavy” week here in Israel, with the Holocaust Memorial Day, followed a week later by the Memorial Day for the fallen soldiers and then, the very next day, Independence Day. Today is Memorial Day. The saddest day in the year in Israel, [...]

Looks like Israel is about to join the list of places where American photographer Spencer Tunick has taken one of his mass nude photographs. You can see his previous work here. Personally, I find his pictures somewhat disturbing. In my world, masses of naked bodies, especially when lying down like in this picture, are automatically [...]

Maybe it’s me, but my eyes wandered off to some positive news on the web today. Figured I’d share some here. Trade between Israel, PA steadily rising – pretty impressive, in times of a global financial crisis. Good news for both sides – nothing like money and economic interests to cement stability and make the [...]

It’s pretty bleak out there, politically, these days. I don’t recall the last time I talked to anyone, left or right, Jewish or Arab, who mentioned any light in the end of the tunnel. Pretty much everyone is busy with slinging mud at the other side, in an endless cycle of blame laying. The sad [...]

I’m writing this post, partly in response to some comments which I received. First, I wish to address the touching comments, some with links to horrendous videos depicting the plight of the people of Gaza. Not a day or an hour goes by that I don’t have the people of Gaza on my mind. My [...]

Mo-ha-med wrote two long interesting posts about “debunking Israeli arguments”. First part is here and the second part is here. There were so many things he’s written there that I see as wrong, I was all set and ready to write a long post debunking his post. Then I read his disclaimer here where he [...]

Interesting Views by Syrian head of opposition (in exile, of course!) He’s not the only one either. I know I have met my share of liberal, free thinking, left-winged Arabs and Muslims online and offline, who share my own distaste for both Hamas and the Jewish settlers of Hebron (same kind of people in my [...]

Israel on Wednesday officially confirmed that an Egyptian-proposed ceasefire (tahadiyeh) with Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip will go into effect at 6 A.M. Thursday. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/993702.html There is a lot of controversy in Israel concerning the topic of a ceasefire with Hamas. What people are afraid of, in a nutshell, is this – 1. [...]

I was talking on Skype to a Syrian student in Damascus a couple of years ago. It was fairly exciting (and I’m not even sure how legal, for either of us). We discussed current events in the Middle East, and the prospects of peace between Israel and Syria. At some point, my newfound Syrian buddy [...]