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Jan 20, 2019, 9:34 PM
Now, Netanyahu really needs a war
The call for snap elections may not be enough to save Bibi Netanyahu. The attorney general is leaning toward February to indict, though he's keeping his options open.  If he opts to advance the process before the elections, Netanyahu's...
Jan 14, 2019, 11:53 PM
Election Poker
In poker, keeping your cards close to your chest leaves the others wondering what cards you're holding. Three months before fateful elections, contender Benny Gantz, former Chief of Staff, is playing a cool hand, poker face and all. His...
Dec 27, 2018, 6:20 PM
Netanyahu needs a war
The call for snap elections may not be enough to save Bibi Netanyahu. The attorney general is undecided about when to move ahead with indictments. He could choose to advance the process before the elections, which would likely doom...
Dec 9, 2018, 10:55 PM
Arresting a Poem
Over the past several years, it has become commonplace to hear people complain of the many ways that the present government is eating away at the foundations of democracy. Last week, I experienced the force of this process myself....
Oct 15, 2018, 11:39 AM
Benny Gantz and the rest of us
Yitzhak Rabin was able to galvanize popular support for the Oslo Agreements, on the left, center, and also to the right of center. He represented extreme security-driven harshness: witness his infamous order to "break the arms and legs" of...
Sep 9, 2018, 8:57 AM
Possibility
"Sad," we shared, sitting in a circle, 18 of us, in an event organized by "Sulha," minutes after viewing the film "Oslo Diaries." Reflecting on the film's rendering of those fleeting, precious moments in Oslo, between 1993-6, we needed...
Aug 20, 2018, 10:55 AM
The normalization dilemma
For 18 years, the Sulha Peace Project has brought together Palestinians from across the territories with Israelis from around the country, in order to hold people-to-people dialogue and solidarity-building. Of late, many of our Palestinian activists have endured harsh...
Jul 12, 2018, 1:37 PM
Empathy for Gazelles
I have always wondered how it is possible that the Jewish people, including the Israelis, can allow another people to endure what we no longer have to. How strange that just at the 1948 moment when we Jews brought to...
Jun 9, 2018, 1:17 AM
Razan Al-Najjar
This courageous young woman was killed last Friday by one of Israel's snipers. According to witnesses, she was wearing her white paramedic’s uniform, attempting to treat protesters near the fence when she was shot. Her story, her life has gone...
May 27, 2018, 9:57 PM
Drain the Swamp
My Sodastream appliance proffered the last portion of CO2 gas, this evening, to make me soda. Selzer, two-cents-plain. God's most thirst-quenching drink, with a squeeze of lime. I walked to the supermarket with the empty gas canister, and by...
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About Me
Yoav Peck, a Jerusalem organizational psychologist, is director of the Sulha Peace Project. Born and raised in New York/New Jersey, he holds a BA from Berkeley, and an MA in organizational psychology. He made aliyah in 1973, and was a member of Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi for 15 years, and has been living in Jerusalem since '88. He has three kids, and three grandchildren.