Tsur Shezaf

The Nanny State - Haaretz Editorial 9/12/07 Lebanon martir Fatma gate Israeli post & Hizballa flag on the border Zeev Segal - Haaretz on the Stupidity of Police & rightous officials Lisa Goldman - Why us Why now, Lisa Goldman - H…

All theThings we don’t need

03.02.05 |

Journalism

What is the most important thing in a man’s life? Indians would answer: “both this and that, and neither this nor that,” meaning nearly everything, or almost nothing is that important. As my English aunt, who passed away a few years ago, would say: it’s all the things we do not need but can’t do without. The world existed before us and will exist after us. To be crazy about nature is an individual…

The funny Story of Ednan El Rul

22.10.04 |

Journalism

The settlement of Ekron was established on land that had been purchased from the Arab village of Aqir. For several weeks, before the pioneers of Mazkeret Batya moved out to live by their fields, they had lived in Aqir itself, sharing with the Arabs the water drawn from their well, and eating the bread they baked. Their Arab hosts had treated them well.) Adnan el Rul's (Ghul) grandfather had been…

Teror in Sinai

08.10.04 |

Journalism

Ras abu galum I didn't sleep all night. Couldn't. I was hoping that silly little Egyptian hope that it was a propane cylinder. I wanted, so bad, the picture to clear out. I didn't sleep, I dozed off then woke up, hoping it all was some bad dream like that night of November 4th, 1995. Peace, my peace, had been murdered. Egypt'…

Para la naturaleza y para el hombre

08.10.04 |

Journalism

¿Qué es lo más importante para la vida del hombre? Podemos utilizar la conocida respuesta hindú : tanto uno como otro, ni uno ni otro. O sea casi todo. O, casi no hay algo que sea importante de verdad. O como decía mi tía inglesa, que falleció hace algunos años: todas esas cosas que no se necesitan y de las que no se puede prescindir. El mundo nos precedió y seguirá estando después de nosotros. La…

THE WAR THAT NEVER WAS

25.07.03 |

Journalism

Suni I was near the end of my journey. I had traveled 300 kilometers northward until south of Mosul. I had traveled westward to the Jordanian border along the desert highway that goes through Ramadi and via Ghorib to Faluja along the secondary road that heads towards the southwest. I had gone south to Kerbala and further south to Najaf and Qufa and the road that goes via al Hila to Babylon. And…

c’è stata veramente la guerra?

25.07.03 |

Journalism

Tsur Shezaf ha passato così un mese nell’Iraq liberato, nascondendo con cura la sua identità israeliana, e ficcando il naso ovunque poteva. Si è messo nei guai a Falluja, ha osservato la trasformazione rapida di una contadina sciita in prostituta per i soldati americani, ha rischiato la vita come sospetta spia. Cnclusione: «L’Iraq americano che ho visto era un’anarchia. Ma quello che sempre più mi…

Iraq – Fatima

03.06.03 |

Journalism

The nights at the Sheraton were near and distant bursts of fire. It was possible to tell when the Americans were shooting by the rounds from the heavy guns on the gigantic Bradley armored personnel carriers. Mitch said that if we heard explosions on the hour it was the American army blowing up ammunition and if not, it was unplanned shooting. The bursts of firing were not on any hour. The American…