A Study in Art II
Photography is to painting as pornography to real women. Both create an illusion of real thing, but leave a lingering emptiness. In the long run, the ‘real thing’ suffers. Pornography undid many happy unions
Israel Implements Actively Anti-Christian Policies
(It may come as something of a surprise to many of Israel’s Christian supporters in the US, but as Israel Shamir reveals Sharon’s government is pursuing an actively anti-Christian policy. Ed.) The Attorney General of Israel, Dr Eliyakim Rubinstein, and police and government bodies intend to press criminal charges against a leading churchman, the spiritual […]
A Bloodcurdling Libel (A Summer Story) Part 2
When the toll of murdered Palestinian children rose into the hundreds and began to attract attention of international organisations, the spirit of the blood libel was promptly ushered forth
Wolf, Lamb and Ouroboros
Uri Avnery has proposed a dual state to resolve the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. However, Israel Shamir argues that the idea is not a solution
Civilisation X
From a talk given given at “The Dialogue of Civilizations: the Contradictions of the Globalization” International Conference on May 23, 2003, in Kyiv, Ukraine
The Shadow of Zog
Zog is one of a few words that kick the fearsome Thought Police of ADL into action, activate FBI like Anthrax, and can send IDF assassins in hot pursuit. This name came back to me with the impending instalment of General Jay Garner as Viceroy of Iraq
The Divine Wind
A Homage to Simone Weil Walls of cold rain and hail encompassed my Jaffa. Streets turned into ferocious streams and snow touched palm trees and whitened the sidewalks of subtropical Tel Aviv, in violent counterpoint to the violet skies hanging low, just a handbreadth above the belfries and minarets, as the hurricane rushed masses of […]
The Maid and the Ogre
Israel Shamir reflects on the killing of Rachel Corrie, the 23 year old American ISM activist who was crushed beneath an Israeli bulldozer
Midas Ears
A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers.
The City of the Great King
A Talk Given in Istanbul City Big Concert Hall on 22.02.03. Heavy snowfall blocks the mountain passes of Anatolia, lays thick Persian carpets on the streets, paints white the mosque domes, churches and markets of your City, the eternal capital of great empires. I came from Jerusalem al-Quds via Moscow, two places intricately connected to […]
Bali Halloween
There were no demands and no terror group has yet claimed responsibility. But according to Israel Shamir new information allows us to peer through confusion surrounding the blasts.
Omen
In a twist of nomenclature that would seem implausible in fiction, a craft carrying Col. Ilan Ramon of the Israeli Air Force apparently broke up over an East Texas town called Palestine. NYT, 2/2/03 Omens, good and bad, are sent to us like beacons to facilitate our navigation in the sea of troubles, said the […]