A little trek in the holy city that no one can command. Where at night the breeze rustles the olive trees. Otherwise it cools you down. Otherwise it creeps you out.
"Why should you go to Israel at such a time?", my dearest people discouraged me, in order to protect me. "There's chaos down there! Come on, the planet is freaking out! They are protesting against them everywhere! Will you visit them too?"
"I will not shake the hand of those who give war orders," I replied. "I will participate in the international conference of writers. Where David Grossman will also speak - dare anyone call David Grossman a hawk!"
“Do most people stand in such shades? They are looking for an opportunity to make fun of, to "cancel" anyone who does not go along with the common feeling...". “Alas if my ear sweated for what those who cannot bear to think will think. Those who are comfortable with easy identifications. Democratic citizens like us live in Israel. Now they need us more than ever..."
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Israel's International Institute for Social and Legal Studies (IISLS) conducted a survey to examine how leading news agencies and newspapers presented the data of the dead in Gaza to their audiences. The investigation began in February 2024 and involved CNN, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Guardian. The conclusion was revealing.
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Israeli Rachel Goldberg-Paulin believed so much that her son, Hersh, would return home from being held hostage by Hamas, that she once said she imagined herself dancing at his wedding and holding his future baby in her arms.
That belief—that her son was alive and that she could bring him back home if she tried hard enough—kept her going for nearly 11 months. That faith kept her going when she saw a video of her son with a hand grenade wound being loaded into a truck and taken to Gaza during the Oct. 7 attack on the Tribe of Nova music festival in southern Israel.
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With negotiations over the future of the Gaza Strip and the fate of dozens of Israeli hostages at the center of attention, the two sides have accused each other of "torpedoing" the talks as hostilities continue in Gaza and Israel's northern border. "K" spoke with the former head of the Mossad's prisoners and missing persons division, Rami Igra, about the difficulties of locating the Israeli hostages, the negotiations in the presence of American officials and the way of acting of the "proxies" of Iran, which monitors the talks.
Comedian Zach Sage, after his video from Ramallah in the West Bank (Wild West Bank) on how Palestinians view Israelis, visited Tel Aviv and asked Israelis exactly the same questions. The answers given by Israelis and Palestinians are diametrically opposed and typical of how they see each other! The Israelis who were asked said that they can coexist peacefully with the Palestinians, unlike the Palestinians who said that only one state (the Palestinian one) can exist in the region!
View HERE the video in Tel Aviv and
HERE the West Bank video