Channel 10, one of Israel’s three TV channels, aired a report this week that surely frightened a lot of viewers. Its title was “Who is Organizing the World-wide Hatred of Israel Movement?”, and its subject: the dozens of groups in various countries which are conducting a vigorous propaganda campaign for the Palestinians and against Israel.
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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 deny the legitimacy of the State of Israel.
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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 time these words were part of the everyday vocabulary of the occupation. In recent years they have been gathering dust in the political junkyard.
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SEIT ICH in meiner Kindheit den Aufstieg der Nazis in Deutschland miterlebte, juckt meine Nase jedes Mal, wenn ich etwas Faschistisches rieche, auch wenn der Geruch noch schwach ist. Als die Debatte über die „Ein-Staaten-Lösung“, begann, fing meine Nase zu jucken an.
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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 from this sea, a few dozen kilometers from here. Can Gilad Shalit look out on the same sea through his window? Does he even have a window? How is he? How is he being treated? He has been in captivity for four years and one day today, with no end in sight.
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