here we go again, another ingrate who takes from Israel all she has and then stabs the country in the back by making these kinds of statements ... why can't these traitors find a way to express their opinion without damaging Israel ... its becasue they want the publicity and attention more than anything else ... hey dummy, go swim to gaza and see what they do with your poems

If he does not wish to live here and wishes to swim to Gaza then I for one support this. He must leave Israel and I wish him all the best far away from here!

Another ":Jew" who has no values and knows not where his loyalties lie. Why the hell did he come back in 1978. No one's forcing him to stay here. Hew doesn't want to live here so......Help him leave .!He's nothing but a traitor

whose poems were nothing but cack to gaza he sailed and at once he was jailed and please g-d he will never come back

I don't remember seeing you here in the south when the missles were landing on us.

This man is a nerutoic mess and I'm not interested in anything he has to say. If you met him at a party would you be interested in talking to him? I wouldn't be ... This people are nothing more than sick attention speakers like Oppenhemer (Peace Now) and the traitors in Bet Zlem etc, Check what they've done and you'll find that it's next to nothing!

These sickos keep up the same mantra but they're still in Israel causing problems! When they leave, I'll perhaps believe in the courage of their convictions. Had you ever heard of him before? No? Then maybe you need to go sit in a N Tel Aviv cafe!

Just go to any one of the crossings to get to Gaza , if that's not possible cause some Israeli security concern for your safety, you can always try Egypt's tunnels to Gaza. Please do not make cheap excuses you cannot swim.

there goes any respect i might have had for those who might call themselves poets.

What is it about academics, artists etc that makes them peace loving idealists. Also the idea of toppling this government and electing one of peace. How naive is this guy when has Israel ever had the governments of peace that people like him want. Unless he wants a coalition that includes only the arab parties and Meeretz then he is going to have a hard time finding this idealists choice government. Well as the next flotilla will not be allowed to reach Gaza then I can only suggest that he either takes some swimming lessons.

Praises to Mr. Zach! He is a truly enlightened Jewish person. I wish there could be more like him. He could, however, go a bit further and acknowledge that the foundation of the Zionist state was a fundamental geopolitical and historical error. But he is on the right track!

Is Abraham Fox going to call Zach Anti-Semetic.

sell your house in Israel and and move to Gaza. It will serve the "persecutet" gazans rather than writing . Just do not bring alcohol with you.

Let's be fair, in the liberal circles, Israel bashing is the in thing, but intellectual honesty is not. Abbass seems to want no Jews living in PAL lands, Hamas wants no Jews, tell me honestly, Zach, why don't you speak out about it??

He is not honest with himself

The Photo by Sarah Avital shows not "Poet Natan Zach", but decrepit, unhealthy Natan Zach smoking himself to death. Why should I want to heed his stupid advice?

With any luck, Zach will be on a ship that gets sunk.

You may be a great poet but a also a big fool! Go to Gaza, try to live there among Gazans "enlightened", then maybe you'll get an idea who the ruler of an apartheid regime ... The amazing thing is that you and your kind are here still among us - I suggest that you take the first car/boat/bus to Gaza and never let you come back from there, even beg!

if her were a better poet he'd be writting poems. Ichsa!

is he smoking ?... He wants to go into the ships of fools... Pfff !

All of you self-righteous people who hate this country--and yet you choose to live here--why is that? Kind of like the dog that bites the hand feeding it. I pray that you and all your kind pack up and leave--that is if anyone else will have you...

i.e., his political opinion is worthless. the amazing thing is that a clown like this would feel free to have an opinion about a serious matter and that he would take license to share it. I would encourage him to take the swim to gaza and not to hurry back.

He lives in Israel and criticizes his home because he want it make it a better place. Obviously he has weighed all the options. Israel can be a better place. Israel still has Jewish people living there that care about the true values of Jewish culture. To those people I wish the very best. The Israeli-Palestine issue can be settled if Israel gives back all the land it took in the 1967 war and lets the Palestinians set up a viable contiguous state with land, sea, water, and offshore natural resource rights for all the people living in Palestine (including the Jewish settlers) OR Israel can declare one secular, democratic nation with a constitution which guarranties the rights for all people living inside its DECLARED borders. That would include rights for all races, creeds, religions, sexes or sexual orientations. It would mean sitting down at a table with Hamas, El Fatah, the PA and dealing with the real issues. It would require real honesty. Israel cannot win by thinking that it can set up an apartheid state in the West Bank. It cannot expel the Palestinians into Jordan. Lebanon or Egypt either. Neither options are viable. No apartheid state has ever survived world opinionand no state has ever justified ethnic cleansing. If these options are tried Israel will fall within 15 years as the weight of world opinion and sanctions will crush it. Think about it.

and give him passage to Gaza? Kerem Shalom should be opened specially for him and his ilk