Minister with No Imagination and a Minister with a Wild Imagination Written by Michael Warschawski    Friday, 05 February 2010 17:08 The Minister of National Infrastructures Uzi Landau is not known as an imaginative person. He is a boring man whose world view is identical to that of his father, an Irgun member and close friend of Menachem Begin. He never learned anything and never forgot anything. The famous saying of Yitzhak Shamir, “the Jews are the same Jews, the Arabs are the same Arabs and the sea is the same sea” serves as Landau’s guiding light. Although he is 67 years old, Landau is a politician of the first half of the 20th century, and as such he understands nothing about political Read more... [Minister with No Imagination and a Minister with a Wild Imagination]

The Third Bethlehem International Conference Written by Michael Warschawski    Monday, 02 November 2009 09:41 During the past weekend (24-25 October), the Third International Conference in Bethlehem was held, in cooperation, this time, with OPGAI, the umbrella organization uniting a large number of Palestinian national movements as well as the Golan Heights resistance. The contributing organizations will likely issue their own evaluations and conclusions in the next days, however, I would like to share some of my own, personal ones. In general, that conference what a great success, even more so than the two previous ones. The presentations at the different panels were very interesting, even for a veteran activist like me; the speakers didn't repeat the obvious; the participation was bigger than expected (more than 400 persons), and the atmosphere was great. Read more... [The Third Bethlehem International Conference]