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 […]
Israel Shamir reflects on the killing of Rachel Corrie, the 23 year old American ISM activist who was crushed beneath an Israeli bulldozer
Why is one of America’s foremost military men so reticent about his background. Could it be that he is trying to hide something?
‘Our troops will not surrender’, declared an Iraqi spokeman as US and British forces are drawn into what begins to look like a trap
A new spectre haunts America. It enters the well-protected boardrooms of newspapers and banks, shakes the deep foundations of its towers.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — An American woman in Gaza to protest Israeli operations was killed Sunday when she was run over by an Israeli bulldozer, witnesses and hospital officials said. Rachel Corrie, 23, a college student from Olympia, Wash., had been trying to stop the bulldozer from tearing down a building in the […]
While the media portays Bush as the driving force behind the plan to invade Iraq, his connections with oil rich european royalty is seldom discussed