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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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.

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

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.)

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...

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

"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.

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...

“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.

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?