Image of the Day

Robert Fisk: Both Arab and Jew lived in the original Palestine.
Why, Moshe Dayan asks, can't they do so again?
The Long View: Our Middle East Correspondent interviews a
feminist, patriot and widow who is nostalgic for a time of much
greater harmony in the region
“I was born here and I have a right to live here – the same thing goes
for the Arab population”
On the wall of the flat is a photograph of a beautiful young woman
with long, dark hair. She is sitting on a lawn with a handsome young man
in British uniform.
I am sitting opposite a lady aged 95, the sea glittering behind her Tel
Aviv balcony, her memories of the old Palestine and the new Israel as
sharp as a teenager’s. She is the woman in the photograph.
The man is Moshe Dayan, the former Israeli chief of staff who
conquered East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza and Golan in 1967,
Israel’s golden boy, whose values – so his widow Ruth Dayan believes –
have been distorted by the country’s present leadership.
After Zionism
Many times she has spoken out to tell the world – and Israelis – that
the country’s right-wing governments are ruining Israel, that Zionism has
“run its course”.
Now she sits in her tartan skirt, surveying her journalist visitor.