My Word

My Word: A hijacked world agenda - opinion

The flydubai attack could have been an Israeli 9/11. Instead, ordinary passengers became heroes and took control of their own survival.

Flydubai passenger Uri Pintov onboard flight flight 1073.
Singer Ed Sheeran appears on NBC's "Today" show at Rockefeller Center in New York, U.S., June 6, 2023.

My Word: Gazan performance art - opinion

 THE TWIN Towers burn

My Word: From 9/11 to October 7, the dates that changed the world - opinion

Marwan Barghouti is tightly guarded as he leaves a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court in 2012.

My Word: The Marwan Barghouti effect - opinion


My Word: The Eurovision and the drums of war

The Eurovision is scheduled to take place in May in the Swedish city of Malmo, which has a large Muslim immigrant community and a dwindling Jewish one, chased out by antisemitism.

 ISRAEL’S EDEN GOLAN – on her way to Eurovision?

My Word: Sanctioning settlers and the two-state obsession

The settler sanctions affair is closely related to another issue – another prize for terrorism.

A BANK Leumi in Jerusalem. The settler sanctions affair is closely related to another prize for terrorism – the ‘two-state solution

My Word: UNRWA’s ‘Un’-doing

The whole concept of “human rights” has been hijacked by terrorist organizations. This is the pervasion of justice that should be on trial in an international court.

 PALESTINIANS RECEIVE flour bags distributed by UNRWA in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip last November.

My Word: Unsocial media and the Gaza war

You can believe in the free market and you can believe in freedom of expression, but Facebook’s refusal to remove the ad belies a very deep problem – one that challenges the entire free world.

 PRO-PALESTINIAN demonstrators protest in New York City, on January 20.

My Word: South Africa's hypocrisy was loud at ICJ Gaza genocide hearing

South Africa is trying to boost its own international standing and deflect attention from its failed state condition at home.

 SUPPORTERS IN Johannesburg await the arrival home of South Africa’s Minister of Justice Ronald Lamola and other members of the South African legal team representing South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, on Sunday.

My Word: Security and solidarity

I’d rather belong to a nation willing to wage war and pay a price to bring home a collective child than to identify with a would-be country that teaches its children to worship the cult of martyrdom.

 A BILLBOARD in Tel Aviv displays the photos of the hostages currently being held by Hamas in Gaza.