Reading some of my earlier posts, I suddenly realize why I'm so unpopular in Europe. My thoughts and writings contain hardly any criticism of Israel. Instead, there are constant expressions of sympathy, even though we are currently the most criticized country on earth. Doesn't that give
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Desert and Peace For decades, planet Earth has been undergoing a rapid process of desertification. Deserts, arid regions, and steppes are expanding worldwide—each year by an area roughly the size of Germany. While deserts have always existed due to climatic or geological factors, since the twentieth century, they have
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Judging by the sounds in the sky, we are at war again. The US is said to have carried out heavy airstrikes against the Iranian arms industry and Revolutionary Guard positions over the past two nights. Numerous Israeli aircraft are taking off from the surrounding military airfields… We moved to
"American pro-Israel activists may have just had their worst week ever", The Times of Israel stated yesterday. "One party (the Democrats - C.N.) is voting for the loudest critics of Israel; the other (Republicans) is cutting a generous deal with Jerusalem’s top adversary; after years
Our media are paying little attention to the World Cup and the temporary total shutdown of the German rail system; they are entirely preoccupied with Trump’s overtures to Iran and with interpreting the confusing signals coming from U.S. Middle East policy. The air is thick with speculation and
Today I started posting texts in the "Archive" category of this website. First, my article "Loyal to the State, but not to the Law," which appeared today on the Jewish News Syndicate in the USA: https://www.jns.org/opinion/chaim-noll/loyal-to-the-state-
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On the Current Situation of Israeli Arabs The new spokesperson for the Israeli army in Arabic is Lieutenant Colonel Ella Waweya, a Muslim Arab from the city of Qalansawe in central Israel, not far from the coastal town of Caesarea on the Mediterranean Sea, where Benjamin Netanyahu's villa
My text about Israel's Arab citizens yesterday in Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich, Switzerland): Das Los der israelischen Araber ist eine Erfolgsgeschichte, allerdings trübt sich das BildDie Araber, die im Krieg von 1947/48 auf dem Gebiet des jüdischen Staates ausharrten, sind später de iure zu normalen Staatsbürgern geworden.
Written yesterday, posted today on Achgut (the title isn’t mine, but the editors’, and I won’t comment on the comments): https://www.achgut.com/ A sad story. A disaster for the people of Iran. Fortunately, the current U.S. president is known for his dubious jokes. Gestern geschrieben,
Have you ever noticed that Jew haters—or anti-Semites, or whatever you want to call them—are always humorless? I saw a video clip in my Facebook stream in which the American right-wing critic of Israel, Tucker Carlson, interviews the leftist Israeli Gideon Levy, a notorious columnist for
Most Israelis find it impossible to view President Trump’s “Iran deal” as a sensible political move. We have seen on several occasions how American presidents have betrayed their allies in the Middle East—and this time, if it actually comes to that, it would be a particularly serious case.
A non-political day, as I’ve been busy with other things since 7 a.m. Sent the essay “Desertification” as a Global Challenge: Literary Transformations of a Landscape to an American journal. Phone calls regarding various matters; at noon, I had a two-hour Zoom conference with publisher M.