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Uri Avnery: The Messiah Hasn't Come
Sunday, 22 March 2015, 5:39 pm | Uri Avnery
THE MESSIAH HASN'T COME and Bibi hasn't gone. That's the sad outcome. Sad, but not the end of the world. As the American saying goes: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life." I would say: "Today is the first day of the battle for the next ... More >>
Uri Avnery : The Speech
Monday, 9 March 2015, 11:35 am | Uri Avnery
SUDDENLY IT reminded me of something. I was watching The Speech by Binyamin Netanyahu before the Congress of the United States. Row upon row of men in suits (and the occasional woman), jumping up and down, up and down, applauding wildly, shouting approval. It ... More >>
An Expensive Speech - Uri Avnery
Sunday, 1 March 2015, 9:43 pm | Uri Avnery
WINSTON CHURCHILL famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Anyone involved with political life knows that that is British understatement. Churchill also said ... More >>
Anti-What? : Uri Avnery
Sunday, 22 February 2015, 10:01 am | Uri Avnery
ANTI-SEMITISM is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? Nonsense. More >>
The Casino Republic : Uri Avnery
Sunday, 15 February 2015, 8:05 pm | Uri Avnery
The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world's tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion dollars at the latest count. But who is counting? More >>
Zionists All : Uri Avnery
Sunday, 1 February 2015, 5:25 pm | Uri Avnery
MANY TIMES people ask me: "Are you a Zionist?" My stock answer is: "Depends on what you mean by Zionism." This is quite sincere. The term Zionism can mean many different things. Like the term socialism, for example. Francois Hollande is a socialist. So ... More >>
Uri Avnery : Galant's Gallant Act
Sunday, 25 January 2015, 7:07 pm | Uri Avnery
THERE USED to be a joke about a sadist and a masochist. "Hit me! Beat me! Kick me!" the masochist pleads with the sadist. The sadist smiles a cruel smile and slowly answers: "No!" THAT, MORE or less, reflects the situation on our northern border ... More >>
Waving in the first Row - Uri Avnery
Tuesday, 20 January 2015, 9:00 am | Uri Avnery
THE THREE Islamic terrorists could have been very proud of themselves, if they had lived to see it. More >>
The Rock of our Existence - Uri Avnery
Saturday, 3 January 2015, 1:04 pm | Uri Avnery
FIRST OF ALL, let me thank you for inviting me to address this important conference. I am neither a professor nor a doctor. Indeed, the highest academic title I ever achieved was SEC (Seventh Elementary Class). More >>
My Glorious Brothers | Uri Avnery, Gush Shalom
Monday, 29 December 2014, 3:00 pm | Uri Avnery
WHEN I was 15 years old and a member of the Irgun underground (by today's criteria, an honest-to-goodness terrorist organization), we sang "(In the past) we had the heroes / Bar Kochba and the Maccabees / Now we have the new ones / The national youth…" ... More >>
Jerusalem: The Unholy City
Monday, 24 November 2014, 2:26 pm | Uri Avnery
In its long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. More >>
Meeting in a Tunnel
Monday, 15 September 2014, 10:14 am | Uri Avnery
THERE WAS this village in England which took great pride in its archery. In every yard there stood a large target board showing the skills of its owner. On one of these boards every single arrow had hit a bull's eye. More >>
Metro Gaza
Monday, 15 September 2014, 10:06 am | Uri Avnery
TEL AVIV has no metro. It has been discussed for decades. Successive mayors have promised it. Alas, still no metro. More >>
Son of Death
Monday, 15 September 2014, 10:01 am | Uri Avnery
THE WAR was over. Families returned to their kibbutzim near Gaza. Kindergartens opened up again. A ceasefire was in force and extended again and again. Obviously, both sides were exhausted. More >>
The War for Nothing
Monday, 15 September 2014, 9:57 am | Uri Avnery
On the Palestinian side: 2,143 dead, 577 of them children, 263 women, 102 elderly. 11,230 injured. 10,800 buildings destroyed. 8,000 partially destroyed. About 40,000 damaged homes. Among the damaged buildings: 277 schools, 10 hospitals, 70 mosques, ... More >>
God Wills It!
Monday, 15 September 2014, 9:54 am | Uri Avnery
FOR SIX decades my friends and I have warned our people: if we don't make peace with the nationalist Arab forces, we shall be faced with Islamic Arab forces. More >>
Hannibal ad Portas
Monday, 15 September 2014, 9:47 am | Uri Avnery
THE LAST war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let's use the time to speak of many things. More >>
Eyeless in Gaza
Monday, 18 August 2014, 5:01 pm | Uri Avnery
The trouble with war is that it has two sides. Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course. There you are, drawing up a wonderful plan for the next war, preparing it, training for it, until everything is perfect. More >>
Israelis indifferent to lynching and war crimes
Friday, 11 July 2014, 2:23 pm | Uri Avnery
Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed. Again. Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before. More >>
The Israel that could have been in Argentina
Friday, 30 May 2014, 5:23 pm | Uri Avnery
During his short visit to Israel, Pope Francis laid a wreath on the grave of Theodor Herzl. That was not a usual gesture. Foreign heads of state are obliged to visit Yad Vashem, as did the Pope, but not the grave of Herzl. More >>
