Was it a dream?
Today was D’s birthday and her mother had arranged tickets a month ago to a play at HaCameri – Tel Aviv’s municipal theatre. The play was “Was it a Dream” – a love affair between a leading actress of the … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: middle-east
Demonstrations in London
F. writes from London: …My heart, soul, and mind is in Gaza and I feel I cannot concentrate or think about anything else. Like you, we are braving the bitter cold to demonstrate against Israel’s new holocaust. Today we were … Continue reading →
The comfort factor
I’m sitting here on my patio, taking in the cool night air, listening to Kate Bush, thinking of my trip to India in a few days. There, across the valley, in Na’alin, a family is grieving the death of their … Continue reading →
Jews from the Amazon
M., originally from Barcelona and now in Jerusalem, had been a volunteer in Wahat al-Salam during the 2nd Gulf War. All the other volunteers had fled, before the airlines cut their flights Since that time I hadn’t seen her. I … Continue reading →
The Nine O Clock News
I found myself turning the evening news off fairly quickly again tonight. The programme opened with an item about a government decision to investigate police wiretapping used as evidence in the investigation of a sexual harassment scandal involving a politician, … Continue reading →
Children from Tulkarm, and a birthday party
This morning went to take pictures of the art workshop for the kids from Tulkarm – most of them are from the refugee camp. They arrived yesterday, and their main activity was to create some paintings, together with children from … Continue reading →
A visit to Israel’s holocaust museum
I’ve lived in Israel for 30 years but somehow evaded a visit to Yad VaShem, the Jewish Holocaust remembrance museum. My youngest son is now in his final year of high school – the year when Israeli schools place an … Continue reading →
One voice, another voice, my voice?
If peace ever comes to the Middle East it will be because certain people, who should have known better, have put aside their accumulated skepticism, suspended their disbelief for a time, and taken the plunge. And after peace is here, … Continue reading →
A response to an article by Maram Masarwi in Ha’Aretz
NSWAS resident Maram Masarwi wrote an op-ed for Haaretz, Needed: An Arab Martin Luther King, Jr., in which she speaks of the influence of the Hamas takeover in Gaza upon Arab society in Israel. She says that this brings into … Continue reading →
Future Vision – the State as Operating System
In these days, a new version of Microsoft’s operating system is due to appear. Windows Vista. And, today, I read through the forty pages of the first draft (in poor English) of The Future Vision of the Palestinian Arabs in … Continue reading →