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Thoughts and Ideas
While in the Daily File we present the terrible outcomes of the Israeli policy towards the Palestinian world, this blog will look at what stands behind this policy and will suggest thoughts about a different outlook on things, ideas for a different kind of conduct, highlight possibilities that the Israeli government ignores, opinions on why things happen as they happen, and so on. Here you will be able to connect the dots and form a bigger picture – so we wouldn’t be able to say we didn’t know.
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Breaking the heifer’s neck
When I talk about "the day after," I don’t mean the day after in Gaza. There, it seems, things will probably continue to be bad, mainly...
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Reality Check
These days, when lies are truth – George Orwell so aptly described – it’s more important than ever to stay alert and critical in general,...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutWho’s on the Road to Recovery?
Yael and I have known each other for many years, and I know that "Road to Recovery" remains one of the few organizations where Israelis...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutWhat should I write about here today?
The “situation,” as we call it here, keeps getting worse, and many questions that need to be asked are left behind—as usual in our...
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Who’s fighting who here?
A very special woman, Mai is. I know, because we know each other for many years now. A few weeks ago I came to visit her, we had dinner...
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A Shared Fate
On the streets, on social media, and even in my own social circle, I keep encountering this statement: “Hamas is to blame for...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutAbout Denial
Piaget, one of the most important researchers in developmental psychology, who studied the development of thinking and understanding in...
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Why do Palestinians hate yellow?
Beyond the fence, in a place the Israeli regime prefers we don’t look at, people live a different kind of life, different from anything...
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Between Protest and Struggle
A protest seeks reform; a struggle seeks rebuilding. A protest asks permission from the system. A struggle takes responsibility – even...
Ayala Shalev's HangoutThis Must Stop
In my mind’s eye I sometimes see this picture, how once when we were young, we would read the horrible descriptions of distant wars, of...