As Israelis were evacuated from Jewish-only communities in the Galilee due to fires this month, Hatim Kanaaneh reflects, “Are you aware that within recent memory your own residential locales had Palestinian names and were inhabited by humans, some of whom with features not really different from your own and who were before their expulsion actually part of the best educated nation in the Middle East? They lived right where you live now but without all those fire-hazardous pines.”
New York Times obit for an Israeli spy, Isaac Shoshan, is a list of grievous acts of violence for Israel, mythologized, typically, by Israeli reporter Ronen Bergman. There is absolutely no discussion of Why Shoshan’s targets would be upset with Israel. And Bergman insists that Shoshan was not an Arab but pretended to be one, when he was from Syria and spoke Arabic, which means he was Arab.
“There is no peace without equality and there is no equality without peace,” Kohavi Shemesh always said, pointing out precisely the paradox of life in a Zionist state. Shemesh, one of the founders of the Black Panthers movement in Israel, died on April 13, 2019 at 75.