Joshua Frank did an important job in bringing two competing stories about the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizbollah: the main-stream story which says they were abducted on the Israeli side of the border, and the alternative claim that the soldiers were captured by...
Italian Reforms Minister Roberto Calderoli, following statements by Iranian President Ahmadinejad last November saying Israel ‘should be wiped off the map’, said Rome should recall its ambassador from Tehran. "I believe one cannot have a civilized relationship with...
If anyone had any doubts about the army vs. settlers “clashes” in Hebron being nothing but a sham (see my latest column), today’s Ha'aretz reports of the so predictable outcome: The state and Hebron's settlers reached an agreement early Monday morning under which...
Amy Mina sends this report from her recent visit to Bethlehem: The Prison of Bethlehem July 2004 This weekend I went to prison. Imposing grey towers stare out of their opaque black roving eyes at the transparent sky above, and the prisoners below. I listened to prison...
For the first time ever, a call to dismantle the Apartheid Wall has been published in Israel's main-stream media, by otherwise very main-stream senior columnist Yoel Esteron of Ha'aretz.
Israel is now reported to have submarines equipped with nuclear weapons. As an Israeli, I find it a great relief. Now, even if Israel is completely destroyed, we'll strike back at whoever did it. We may all perish - but not ignominously! In fact, the future is already...
If you haven't read my "Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image", you may expect Israel's "liberal newspaper" to stand up clear and loud against the recent Israeli aggressive escalation, in which Sharon, breaching a cease-fire that had lasted for some 20 years, sent...
