Category: politika
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Showing more than leg.
My leg is famous thanks to BY‘s photography and this website: “Elections now.” It’s funny because I don’t necessarily believe in elections now, but it may be the start of a political-modeling career.
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Underappreciated, overrated.
On one hand, we have this report coming out of the BBC World Service, saying that Israel has been voted the least popular country out of a survey of 12 countries (Iran and the U.S. come closely behind). On the other, there is this Happiness Map that shows Israel to be a pretty happy place,…
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What good are microphones if they're not on?
I wish all the microphones were always on and nobody ever realized.
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Onward and forward…
You know what’s interesting? So now we have this Kadima party, supposed to be centered and all. We have political figures quitting their old parties to join from both the left and the right. This basically means that within the political party Kadima will be the neccesity for negotiations – level 2 negotiations, which happen…
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More than just a pretty 'tlush'…
Now that I am an employee in the Israeli workforce… …hearing about today’s suicide bombing has a different take. Maybe it is because I have ‘more’ at stake? Maybe it is because I feel more settled here, so this is my fate more than ever before? …Israeli politics have a different meaning. It’s not just…
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Quitter!
Sharon quits Likud, forms new (centrist) party, Knesset set to collapse. Haaretz Jerusalem Post NY Times CNN
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10th year memorial – already…
my brother went to the huge 10th year memorial service in Kikar Rabin in Tel Aviv, 12.11.05 (pushed off because Clinton could only come now instead of the actual date, 4.11.05) the assassinated prime minister the conspiracy theories did he or didn’t he?
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What was, what is, what will be?
Jordan Sinai Egypt England Spain Saudi Arabia Morocco Indonesia US to name a few.
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dirty old israeli men…
sharon beat netanyahu…breathe easy.
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a eulogy – for a man? a past? a future?
yasser arafat was the topmost leader of the PLO – the umbrella organization for the social, militant, and terrorist organizations of the palestinians and the official representative of the palestinian people to the world. he was top chairman of fatah, in fact, he started it. arafat started one of the most deadly advertising campaigns in…
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post annoyance
so here’s an irony: people who are anti-bush said that if bush won, they’re heading straight to the consulate for canadian visas.people who are anti-kerry said if kerry won, they’re heading straight to the consulate for israeli visas. bush won, and today i paid a highly anticipated visit to the israeli consulate. Liz v. Aliyah…
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Dear George
Dear President Bush, I thought I’d extend my vote into more of an explanation: Just because you managed to pull one or two more electoral score points does not mean America has spoken. It means 50% of America has spoken, and many, maybe 20%-30%, reluctantly at that. In fact, 100% of America has spoken, but…