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Wise is good, but mighty is better.
He is cute, this ninety-year-old man, I think to myself. Never tiring, always smiling.
Interesting that he uses the “friend” term only for the Palestinian.
“There is no other truth than the truth of peace.”
everybody at this table is Circassian, not Arab.
not even this internationally admired Jew could get bigger Arab leaders
Even its president is a deluded man.
the kids here are Ethiopian and Russian, Israel’s newest immigrant communities.
If you want to spend them complaining, you will pay the price.
We get to like each other, and joke together.
The Gardener film, a PC film, as PC as you’ll ever
don’t have a single word of criticism against the stone throwers.
the Jews should accept the stones.
“I had a good teacher at school and she taught us all about it.”
famous Israeli author Amos
Who’s a Jew?
any other nation.”
“This place works like a magnet and is also radioactive, spreading out. Call it mystical.
“This place is the densest in the world in terms of words.
This crowdedness of textuality is the meaning of this place.
Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin died by a bullet of a Jewish assassin.
the Altalena Affair,
But no other nation, except the Jews, ‘forced its children to go to school at the age of three.’
Before coming to the Lebanese border he was stationed in Hebron.
“Yes. I’ve become more of a rightist.
You experience the hate and you know there’s no chance for peace.”
“I’m not a Zionist. When I finish my army service, I think of leaving Israel
The Arab kids with the stones, or the adult leftists.
is also an experience. People from all walks of life share the same
the army teaches us that we are all the same.
“I don’t really know if I’ll leave this country. I don’t think I will.”
He drove all the way to meet his dead friend.
Tel Aviv, Israel’s cultural capital.
Ran Rahav, Israel’s best-known PR person,
the engine driving the Israeli people is this: “Survival.”
to Rothschild Street, where the Ashkenazi liberal rich dine,
the leftists of this land are also its richest.
and I wonder if today’s Israel’s leftists are the same.
title of “political psychologist.”
Her specialty, she informs me, is religious extremists, mainly settlers.
What vision? What Isaiah? I am befuddled by her lack of knowledge
the ultra-Orthodox people of a city called Bet Shemesh
The Gentiles don’t like us, and they never will. What peace? Peace is a dream.”
they decide for themselves what is permitted to do and what is forbidden,
should follow their husbands.”
Na Nakh Nakhma Nakhman Me’Uman, which
are not real Hasidim, they are just meshugehners.
said this Nanakh all day and it helped him to be happy and healthy ever after.
restaurants are from the devil. In restaurants, after all, men and women
these people have their own buses, where men sit in the front of the bus and women in the back.
