I have just come to know that next week the Jerusalem Municipality will distribute free Christmas trees to the Christian residents of Jerusalem. I missed my chance! I already bought a Christmas tree (plastic) and matching decoration in Bethlehem, on my visit last week. It was a bit silly to drag around the tree all [...]
Posts Tagged ‘palestinian’
Oh Christmas tree
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, Bethlehem, Christian, Christmas tree, israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, madonnaro, palestinian on 20/12/2009 | 2 Comments »
Rewriting history: lies vs. omissions PART II
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged controversy, history, israeli, palestinian, revisionism, textbook on 20/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
It seems that the safest opinion in this country is to have no opinion. Why? Because truth changes. It plays hide and seek. The nearest you can come to an informed judgment would require a serious investigation, digging in archives, interviewing eye-witnesses. What normal citizien has time for that? So we leave it up to [...]
Rewriting history: lies vs. omissions PART I
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged censorship, education, israeli, nakba, palestinian, school, textbook on 12/10/2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago my attention was caught by an article in the Haaretz (yes- again) where it was announced that Israeli textbooks were finally to re-integrate a mention to the Palestinian version of the facts which accompanied the foundation of the Jewish state (what they call the Nakba, a “catastrophe”). I was strongly impressed [...]
