Gush-Shalom

Reluctant Prophet

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:31:51 +0530

On Monday, I was honored to receive the Leibowitz Prize for “life’s work”, the prize established by the Yesh Gvul soldiers' peace organization. I was unable to prepare a speech, so I spoke off the cuff and have to reconstruct my remarks from memory. (The laudation speech by the Nobel Prize laureate, Prof Ada Yonat, was far too laudatory for me to distribute.)

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Mohammad Bakri

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:20:05 +0530

The actor Mohammad Bakri
Is the target of
A boycott campaign
With ministerial support

It's a pity for Bakri
That he is not a settler.
Then, such a campaign
Would be forbidden by law.

Hurrah for Egypt!

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:37:44 +0530

THE IMPOSSIBLE has happened. The Egyptian parliament, democratically elected by a free people, has convened for its first session.

MANIFESTLY ILLEGAL

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:17:18 +0530

Migron, a manifestly
Illegal settlement
On private Palestinian land,
Has been asked to move
a few hundred meters.
The media ask anxiously:
Will they accept
This "compromise"?

At Anata, Palestinians built
On their own land.
"Manifestly illegal!"
Declared the army
And during the night
Destroyed the whole village.
(The media did not bother
To report.)

Unenthusiastic defense of boycott law by reluctant Knesset legal advisor

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:40:26 +0530

More than six months after enactment of the "Boycott Law", the responses of the Knesset and government to the Gush Shalom appeal against that law were at last presented to the Supreme Court.

In...

The Blockbusters

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:24:38 +0530

“ISRAEL HAS no foreign policy, only a domestic policy,” Henry Kissinger once remarked.

PARDON

Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:31:06 +0530

"They have blood
On their hands!"
Said the government,
When asked
By the Europeans
To free Palestinians
Imprisoned before Oslo.

"He has been
Punished enough!"
Says the government
And wants to pardon
A policeman Imprisoned
A year and a half ago
For shooting a
Palestinian to death.

Settler leader Katzover no longer pretends to support democracy

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:19:25 +0530

Benny Katzover, one of the founders and prominent leaders of the settler movement, takes off all masks. He declares himself in clear and unambiguous words to be a sworn enemy of democracy, striving to dismantle and destroy the democratic...

The Shining Torch

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:11:16 +0530

“SHINING TORCH” sounds like the name of a Red Indian (or should I say Native American?) chief. In Hebrew, it is the literal meaning of the name of our latest political sensation: Ya’ir Lapid.

NEW RECORD

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:58:21 +0530

Can a person
Who personally
Violates International Law
Be a Supreme Court judge?

Judge Noam Solberg
Is a settler
In Occupied Territory.
The appeal against
His appointment
Was rejected at record speed
By the Supreme Court.

If that is kosher –
What isn’t?

The Stolen War

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:36:34 +0530

IS THERE no limit to the villainy of Hamas? Seems there isn’t.

This week, they did something quite unforgivable.

They stole a war.

State Attorney finds it difficult to defend "The Boycott Law"

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:31:35 +0530

The State Attorney's Office asked the Supreme Court judges to give them more time for answering the appeals lodged against the "Boycott Law". It is now nearly six months since the Knesset adopted this law in a stormy...

RESULTS

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:10:10 +0530

Representatives of
The Israeli government
Met this week with
The Palestinians.
Results: None.

Representatives of
The Israeli government
Met this week with
The settlers.
Result: legitimization
Of "Ramat Gilad",
An illegal settlement
Built on
Private Palestinian land.

Shukran, Israel

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 15:39:42 +0530

IF ISLAMIST movements come to power all over the region, they should express their debt of gratitude to their bête noire, Israel.

What next?

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:48:04 +0530

A direct line
Leads from
The anti-democratic legislation
In the Knesset,
Through the violent rampage
Of the settlers
In the West Bank,
To the fanatical hooliganism
In Beit Shemesh.

What next?

The Duke of Nablus

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 00:56:32 +0530

THE NAME of Munib al-Masri has recently come up as a possible candidate for Prime Minister of a Palestinian national unity government. Not being a member of either Fatah or Hamas, he is acceptable to both.

Delay

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:26:19 +0530

Half a year ago,
Gush Shalom appealed
Against the law forbidding
The boycott of
Settlement products.

The state's lawyers
Find it difficult
To defend a law
Whose enactment
They had tried to prevent.

This week the
State Attorney's Office
Asked the Supreme Court
For another delay.

“With Friends Like These…”

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:17:07 +0530

MY GOD, what a bizarre lot these Republican aspirants for the US presidency are!

What a sorry bunch of ignoramuses and downright crazies. Or, at best, what a bunch of cheats and cynics! (With the possible exception of the good doctor Ron Paul).

THE GOLEM

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:37:57 +0530

Palestinian demonstrators
Are being shot.

In face of rampaging settlers,
The army did not make
Even a single arrest.

For 44 years, the IDF
Has pampered the settlers
And enabled them
To mistreat the Palestinians.

Now the golem
Turns on its creator.

The rampaging Golem was created during 44 years of occupation

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:33:47 +0530

When soldiers faced Palestinian demonstrators at Nebi Salah last Friday, they shot and killed. When they faced rampaging settlers, there was not even a single arrest.

For 44 years the IDF has pampered the...