The Israeli defense minister's grasp of economics
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- Category: Politiche israeliane
- Published on Thursday, 20 November 2014 08:12
- Written by Nehemia Shtrasler
Haaretz, 6.11.14
if you thought that defense is Ya’alon’s only field of expertise you were mistaken. He is also an expert on economics. Recently he said that “We as the leadership should have lowered the cost of living and the cost of housing and we failed... Milky [a popular chocolate pudding], yogurt, whatever, people are paying too much for products...and that has to stop.”
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Israelis excel at camouflaging the expulsion of Palestinians
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- Category: Opposizione israeliana
- Published on Friday, 31 October 2014 22:20
- Written by Amira Hass
Haaretz, 20.10.14
After the big expulsion of between 700,000 and 800,000 Palestinians in 1948, we have made do with smaller expulsions, and excel in camouflaging them under various legal definitions or varying circumstantial theories. The Israeli civil-military bureaucracy does not attempt to bathe its acts in any single guiding ideology. But the spirit of Avigdor Lieberman, Naftali Bennett, Rehavam Ze’evi and Yosef Weitz is watching from above.
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A Song for Gaza: The Ballad of Rivka and Mohammed - Video
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- Category: Dissidenza ebraica
- Published on Sunday, 26 October 2014 10:51
- Written by Leon Rosselson
08 August 2014
Written and sung by Leon Rosselson. The song was written in July/August 2014 as Israel’s bombardment of Gaza slaughtered 2000 civilians, among them hundreds of children.
LYRICS
I was watching the news from Gaza
And I fell asleep on my chair
And when I awoke from my slumber
A young girl was standing there.
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The difference between children
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- Category: Opposizione israeliana
- Published on Wednesday, 08 October 2014 22:36
- Written by Gideon Levy
Haaretz, 24.08.14
After the first child, nobody batted an eye; after the 50th not even a slight tremor was felt in a plane’s wing; after the 100th, they stopped counting; after the 200th, they blamed Hamas. After the 300th child they blamed the parents. After the 400th child, they invented excuses; after (the first) 478 children nobody cares.
The mixed messages Jews send about Israel
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- Category: Dissidenza ebraica
- Published on Tuesday, 07 October 2014 21:02
- Written by NEWS SOURCES
July 28, 2014
in the words of recent Forward contributor Tova Ross:
When angry protesters shout “Death to the Jews!” at “anti-Israel” rallies in Antwerp, Berlin and London, and Jews are trapped in a Paris synagogue and firebombed by an angry mob, how can you honestly posit that anti-Zionism has nothing to do with anti-Semitism?