Hagada Hasmalit

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I WAS shaking with fear. A well-groomed gentleman appeared on TV. He was identified as the chief of an association called Re’uth (“Sight”), whose aim is to monitor the groups which ...

Posted by רני On August - 11 - 2010 0 Comment

PEOPLE ENDOWED with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Binyamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front”. Once upon a ...

Posted by רני On August - 2 - 2010 0 Comment

I AM composing these lines while looking through the window at the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and thinking about the young man who is being held not far ...

Posted by רני On June - 28 - 2010 0 Comment

It appears that the limits of stupidity and carelessness are historically-concretely determined. Meaning that, in normal conditions, any organism which rushed blindly, stupidly and carelessly into one catastrophe after another ...

Posted by רני On June - 11 - 2010 0 Comment

When the commander of the Israeli navy, Admiral Eli Marom, announced at a press conference that the navy was about to intercept the flotilla of humanitarian aid ships to besieged ...

Posted by רני On June - 7 - 2010 0 Comment

On Israel’s 62nd birthday there is no reconciliation and no peace. Originally posted in the Hebrew website. After sixty-two years of the existence of the State of Israel, we must ask: is ...

Posted by רני On June - 4 - 2010 0 Comment

An investigation conducted by industrious journalists from (the Israeli daily newspaper) Yedioth Ahronot revealed that South African Judge Richard Goldstone served the polluted and racist Apartheid regime (1948 until 1994, ...

Posted by רני On May - 23 - 2010 0 Comment

American politics continue their plunge into ritual farce. Last week we had the spectacle of progressives rallying to the right-wing Elena Kagan, largely on the grounds that it’s improper of ...

Posted by רני On May - 22 - 2010 0 Comment

EVERYONE HAS the right to change his or her mind. Even Danny Tirzeh. Colonel Tirzeh was responsible for planning the wall that “envelopes” Jerusalem – the one that cuts the city ...

Posted by רני On May - 2 - 2010 0 Comment

I MET Salam Fayyad, the Palestinian Prime Minister, two weeks ago, and was again impressed by the calm and modesty he radiates. Generally, I meet him at demonstrations, such as those ...

Posted by רני On April - 11 - 2010 0 Comment

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