This Week's Message
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Barak's illumination
After six years
Ehud Barak remembers
The historic peace offer
Of the 22 countries
Of the Arab League.
What a pity
That this is only
A tactic
To compete with
Tzipi Livni. • More...
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OLIVE HARVEST
Again and again the settlers
Attack Palestinian olive pickers.
The army and police look on
Or declare a "closed military area"
And drive the Palestinians out.
Soldiers and policemen who dare
To... • More...
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CO-EXISTENCE?
In the mixed towns,
Disaster is looming.
The Akko pogrom gangs
Are but the tip of an iceberg
Of incitement, hatred and discrimination
Against the Arabs.
Sanctimonious talk about "co-existence"... • More...
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WALL STREET
All our governments
Have assumed that
As long as the American
Support us,
We can ignore the whole world
And oppress the Palestinians.
But no Empire lasts forever
And the message is written
On the... • More...
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Who is to blame?
Not the settlers alone
Are guilty of
The violent riots.
The occupation
And all its organs
Are guilty:
The government,
The army,
The police and
The courts. • More...
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UNITED
The police says that the family
Of the young Arab who
Ran over the soldiers in Jerusalem
Are "Jew haters".
Many Jews in the city
Are "Arab haters"
"United Jerusalem"
Has become a curse.
The... • More...
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Deeds, please
Ehud Olmert
During his last
Days in office
Offers good and true ideas
When he has no chance
Of implementing them
Tzipi Livni
Can, right at the beginning
Walk towards peace
Not by words
But by deeds • More...
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Total loss
It was trivial greed
Which caused Olmert
To lose his whole world.
The greed for settlements
May cause the State of Israel
To lose more than that: itself. • More...
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ABIE
Abie Nathan -
Courageous peace activist,
Conducted a hunger strike
Against the settlements
Almost to death,
Went twice to jail
For meeting Yasser Arafat,
Planned his actions alone,
Took on... • More...
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THE DIFFERENCE
In military prison:
Udi Nir, 18,
Who refuses to serve
In the army that
Violates human rights
In the occupied territories.
Walking free:
The soldiers who
Shot dead
At close range
Ahmad Mussa, 10... • More...
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A stain
Shooting, of any kind,
At a handcuffed prisoner
Is a war crime.
A commander
Who gives a soldier
Such a criminal order
Must be kicked out
Of the army.
This week the
Chief of Staff
Decided that... • More...
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BARGHOUTI
If
Ehud Olmert
Wants, before leaving,
To do something good
For Israel -
Let him release
Marwan Barghouti
At once,
So he can lead
The Palestinian
Peace Camp. • More...
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Admitting and shooting
The Chief of Staff,
Gabi Ashkenazi,
Admitted that the path
Of the "Separation Fence"
Was devised to expropriate
Palestinian land
For the settlers and
Real estate sharks,
Not for security.
On the... • More...
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Punishing the messenger
The shooting at
A handcuffed Palestinian
Is not exceptional.
What is exceptional
Is that it was photographed.
Clearly, for every act
Of photographed harassment
There are dozens
Which are not... • More...
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Let's do it
One day
Gilad Shalit will
Come home to
His family.
One day
Our prisons
Will be emptied of
Palestinian prisoners,
And they, too,
Will return to
Their families.
Let's not wait.
Let's do it. • More...
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Orphans and Widows
As part of the actions
Against Hamas,
The Olmert government
Is destroying orphanages,
Schools and charities
In the West Bank.
There are no other
Institutions to take their place.
Orphans, widows... • More...
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OCCUPIED
East Jerusalem
Is occupied
Palestinian territory.
Both the municipality
And the government
Treat is as such.
So do the inhabitants.
The only solution
Is to return
East Jerusalem
To Palestinian rule. • More...
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Let it be clear:
Whoever kills
Palestinians
In the West Bank -
Intends to
Destroy the ceasefire
In the Gaza Strip. • More...
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A VICTORY
The cease-fire
Is a victory of
Common sense.
The next task:
To prevent our
Warmongers
From destroying it. • More...
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LITTLE GIRLS
Hadeil al-Smieri
9 years old,
Was killed at home
By an Israeli tank shell.
A few hours later,
The cabinet convened in Jerusalem
And decided to continue
Negotiations for a ceasefire
That could... • More...
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OBAMA
Every child in Israel
Knows by now that
There will be no peace
Without dividing Jerusalem.
But the candidate
Barack Obama
Declared this week that
"United" Jerusalem must be
The capital of Israel... • More...
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The Trouble
The Trouble is
That our Prime Ministers
Remember their duty
To make peace
Only when they are
In deep trouble. • More...
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MISSING
The President of the US and
Other world leaders and VIPs
Have come to celebrate
The 60th anniversary
of the State of Israel.
All of them together
Do not make up
For the absence of
The... • More...
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THANKS
Medicines worth a
Quarter of a million shekels
Were brought this week
Into the Gaza Strip
By Gush Shalom,
As part of the
Coalition Against the Blockade.
Thanks to the many donors
Who answered our... • More...
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The 60th Independence Day
Next Week
The 60th Independence Day
Will be celebrated
With boastful wastefulness.
This week Israel looked
Cruel and callous.
Instead of accepting gladly
The proposed cease-fire,
It sent its... • More...
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THE PROPOSAL
Now it's official:
Hamas is ready to accept
The State of Israel
Within the 1967 borders -
Subject to approval
By a Palestinian plebiscite -
And also proposes
A cease-fire.
The Olmert-Barak... • More...
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CARTER
Jimmy Carter,
Former President of the USA,
Father of our peace with Egypt,
Offered to help us
Break out of the
Vicious circle of bloodshed.
He was angrily rebuffed.
The next day,
Three IDF... • More...
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Not a word
5-year old Abdallah Bahar
Was killed this week
In the Gaza Strip
By army fire.
Not a single word about this
Was published by
Yediot Aharonot, Maariv
Or any TV channel.
Only Haaretz published a... • More...
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VERBOTEN
75 years ago this week,
The Nazis forbade Germans
To enter Jewish shops.
The Knesset decided
To forbid Israelis
To bring their cars
To Palestinian garages
In the occupied territories.
Where will... • More...
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