"...While the evacuation of a few settlers from the occupied Gaza strip causes a political havoc, threatening to overturn the government which has democratically voted for it, millions are pumped into strengthening the majority of settlements on the occupied West Bank..."

This is my country:
As it is commonly known, "the only democracy in the Middle East."

This is my country:
Where conscientious citizens objecting to atrocities perpetrated in their name by generals, officers, and soldiers in active service and reserves, are pursuing their bringing to international justice for war crimes, since the Israeli justice system shuns its moral obligations. And where such citizens are threatened by a senior Likud MP Steinitz (a former colleague at my university - where else?) who attempts to legislate a "treason law," remindful of dark ages, whereby such conscientious citizens will be prosecuted and serve jail for their initiative.

This is my country:
Where not a single police officer of the many who shot into demonstrations of its Palestinian citizens, killing 13 and injuring many others, is found accountable as much as to be brought to court - not even for a minor negligence, let alone more serious offence - even though a very lenient and mild official investigation commission did find fault with police behaviour five years ago. Nor, probably, would any soldiers injuring almost daily demonstrators at Bil'in village against the building of the separation wall which makes the life of West Bank Palestinians misery. At the same time, a young woman, Tali Fahima, is serving jail for months and is standing trial for some mysterious allegations, boiling down to her choosing to serve as a human shield for a Palestinian resistance leader in his refugee camp during the notorious Jenin operation from becoming a direct target for killing by the Israeli security forces.

This is my country:
Where the alleged suffering of settlers evacuated from homes, lands, and water resources stolen from the Palestinians is staged dramatically all over the media, while the families of the Palestinians murdered and injured in cold blood by acts of terrorism perpetrated by settlers and their supporters, in protest against that evacuation, have no right to the regular compensation given to terror victims, since the letter of the law in my democratic country defines an act of terrorism as a crime directed against the State of Israel, whereas Jewish murderers are not considered such to whom that definition applies.

This is my country:
Where a bare building which used as a synagogue by the settles of an evacuated settlement (out of which all sacred relics have been officially taken out) is buried in the ground in a pagan-like military ceremony, and similar constructions, contrary to opinions of rabbis, not demolished to provoke the Palestinians after the evacuation, who don't see any reason to treat those empty constructions as sacred places; and while crying havoc on the "desecration" of such unholy buildings, I do remember very well our favorite playground when a little child, on a

University of Haifa

University of Haifa - Avraham Oz (Dept of Comparative Literature) applauds role in charges of fictitious "War Crimes" brought against IDF Officers. Also laments the recent transparency to previously "privileged secrecy of proceedings" that allows for "administrators to get rid of faculty".

This is my country...

University of Haifa - Avraham Oz (Dept of Comparative Literature) applauds role in charges of fictitious "War Crimes" brought against IDF Officers.
Also laments the recent transparency to previously "privileged secrecy of proceedings" that allows for "administrators to get rid of faculty".