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.
We are actually having pleasant, peaceful days, bathed in clear azure skies, as busy as ever, quietly rejoicing in the prosperity of our brave people. Yet we know that at any moment we could be attacked with rockets by the fractured but fiercely determined Revolutionary Guards or the barefoot Houthis.
Our synagogue is different from those in Europe: it’s completely open. You enter through a glass door—no bulletproof glass, no police officers, no security at all, and the prayer hall has a huge window front facing the desert. I sit right by the windows, and when we sing
Today I read excerpts from my as-yet-unpublished novel, "Immortality", an amusing, grotesque story set entirely in Israel. My Munich agent, L.K., one of Germany's most successful literary agencies, offered the novel to more than 30 German publishers a few years ago, all of
Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip have beaten, maimed, and publicly executed dozens of Palestinians according to a United Nations report published yesterday. “These cases involved executions, kneecapping, and bone-breaking with metal pipes or cement bricks and were framed by the perpetrators as punishments for alleged collaboration with Israel,