Israel Shamir

The Fighting Optimist

Category: slider

Putin Blues

plavevski / Shutterstock.com
Heavy darkness befalls the North; the sun rarely emerges from between the clouds. This year, Russia has noticeably less street illumination, and the spirits are anything but festive. Only the whiteness of the snow and Christmas trees break the gloom and remind us of the forthcoming low point of the cosmic wheel, Yuletide, when days starts to wax and nights to wane. As this stellar event foret[...]
Read in French: Le blues de Poutine

Autumn in Palestine

Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com
Autumn is beautiful in Palestine: overripe blue-green figs, unpicked pomegranates pecked by birds, heavy grapes turn red. Now is the olive harvest time, and the burghers of Bethlehem and its twin city Beth Jala (everyone owns a plot with olive trees) bring heavy sacks full of green and black olives to the local oil press equipped by the latest Italian machinery. They watch like eagles over th[...]
Read in French: Automne en Palestine
Israel Shamir © 2016 Frontier Theme