I can’t figure Avraham Burg out. I was listening on Wednesday to a debate between him and Shalom Achshav’s secretary general, Yariv Oppenheimer, in Tel Aviv University. To be frank, I came to listen to MK Ahmed Tibi, who hasn’t shown up. The debate was about, sigh, Zionism and democracy. While Oppenheimer took an openly [...]

Reopening 1948: Israel made another step towards a transformation into a bi-national state Sunday, when the Supreme Court legitimized the Palestinian right of return. Naturally, that’s not what the Court had in mind, but that was the result. The Court decided that a large part of the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood belongs to the heirs (and [...]