Forward, a Jewish publication based in New York, had one of these ”aren’t we cool, look what we are writing about” items last week, informing its readers of an Israeli ”phenomenon”. Apparently, ”activists” have decided to boycott hashish originating from Lebanon, in order to avoid indirect sponsorship of Hizbullah, which is believed to be involved in smuggling the drug over the Israeli border.
It is no accident that the ”left”, the supporters of disengagement, reclaimed the national colour, blue, while the radical right wing stayed away from it. In an interview on Newsnight, Shimon Peres, Ariel Sharon’s deputy and the leader of the Labour Party, repeated an often overlooked truth.
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/ 17 September 2004
Twenty-four hours before arriving in England for his team’s decisive match against Newcastle United on Thursday, the chairperson of Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin, Mazen Gnaiem, still had no idea which airport his team was about to arrive at. Indeed, he was rather surprised to discover that London had more than one.