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Uri Avnery: "I Came, I Saw, I Destroyed!"
Tuesday, 18 March 2008, 1:31 pm | Uri Avnery
WHAT HAPPENED this week is so infuriating, so impertinent, that it stands out even in our familiar landscape of governmental irresponsibility. More >>
"Kill A Hundred Turks And Rest..."
Monday, 10 March 2008, 2:19 pm | Uri Avnery
I WAS reminded this week of the old tale about a Jewish mother taking leave of her son, who has been called up to serve in the Czar's army against the Turks. More >>
Uri Avnery: Three Cheers For Kosova!
Sunday, 24 February 2008, 1:06 pm | Uri Avnery
Anyone who believes that Israelis and Palestinians will unite tomorrow in one state does not live in the real world. The slogan "two states for two peoples" is relevant. So Israel should recognize the Republic of Kosova and wish it well. More >>
Uri Avnery: An End Foreseen
Monday, 11 February 2008, 7:18 am | Uri Avnery
The real war against the occupation takes place in the minds of the occupied population. Therefore, the main task of the freedom fighter is not to fight against the occupation, as it may seem, but to win the hearts of his people. More >>
Uri Avnery: From Stalingrad to Winograd
Monday, 4 February 2008, 4:24 pm | Uri Avnery
All eyes were fixed on the raised blade of the Winograd commission. The judge sat down before the cameras and read out the report. But the blade did not come down. No reserve soldier raised the bloody, severed head. The head remained in its place. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Hands Are The Hands Of Esau
Monday, 14 January 2008, 5:04 pm | Uri Avnery
"The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." (Genesis, 27: 22). Yet Jacob, the impostor, did receive the blessing and became the father of the nation which was named after him (he was also called Israel). More >>
Uri Avnery: The Case Of The White Bird
Monday, 7 January 2008, 8:54 pm | Uri Avnery
In public opinion polls, Tzipi Livni has enjoyed a remarkable popularity. She trumps all the other politicians in the governing coalition. While the rating of the two Ehuds - Olmert and Barak - was going down, hers was on the way up. More >>
Uri Avnery: Help! A Cease Fire!
Monday, 24 December 2007, 10:34 am | Uri Avnery
FORGET THE Qassams. Forget the mortar shells. They are nothing compared with what Hamas launched at us this week: The chief of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, has approached an Israeli newspaper and proposed a cease-fire. More >>
Uri Avnery: How They Stole The Bomb From Us
Monday, 10 December 2007, 1:39 pm | Uri Avnery
The earth shook. Our political and military leaders were all in shock. The headlines screamed with rage. More >>
"The Tumult And The Shouting Dies…"
Tuesday, 4 December 2007, 10:17 am | Uri Avnery
"THE TUMULT and the shouting dies, / The captains and the kings depart…" Rudyard Kipling wrote in his unforgettable poem "Lest We Forget" ("Recessional")King George departed even before the tumult had died. His helicopter carried him away over the ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Last Refuge
Monday, 12 November 2007, 11:48 am | Uri Avnery
ISRAEL IS an island in the global sea. We live in a bubble. This week I was sharply reminded of this. More >>
Uri Avnery: 12 Years Later
Sunday, 28 October 2007, 1:17 pm | Uri Avnery
More than anything, Rabin was the typical representative of my generation, the "generation of 1948" - and not by accident was this generation defined by a war. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Mother of all Pretexts
Monday, 15 October 2007, 10:15 am | Uri Avnery
WHEN I hear mention of the "Clash of Civilizations" I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. To laugh, because it is such a silly notion. To cry, because it is liable to cause untold disasters. To cry even more, because our leaders are exploiting this ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Two Knights and a Dragon
Sunday, 7 October 2007, 7:56 pm | Uri Avnery
THERE ARE books that change people's consciousness and change history. Some tell a story, like Harriet Beech Stowe's 1851 "Uncle Tom's Cabin", which gave a huge impetus to the campaign for the abolition of slavery. Others take the form ... More >>
Gush Shalom: So What About Iran?
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 5:24 pm | Uri Avnery
A RESPECTED American paper posted a scoop this week: Vice-President Dick Cheney, the King of Hawks, has thought up a Machiavellian scheme for an attack on Iran. Its main point: Israel will start by bombing an Iranian nuclear installation, Iran will ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Foam on the water
Tuesday, 25 September 2007, 12:50 am | Uri Avnery
TODAY IS Yom Kippur, and almost automatically my thoughts, like those of everybody else who was around at the time, go back 34 years, to that Yom Kippur. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Palestinian Mandela
Monday, 17 September 2007, 7:58 pm | Uri Avnery
THE DIVISION of the Palestinian territories into a "Hamastan" in the Gaza Strip and a "Fatahland" in the West Bank is a disaster. A disaster for the Palestinians, a disaster for peace, and therefore also a disaster for Israelis. The Israeli political ... More >>
Uri Avnery: BIL'IN! BIL'IN!
Monday, 17 September 2007, 7:55 pm | Uri Avnery
WHEN MY friends fall prey to despair, I show them a piece of painted concrete, which I bought in Berlin. More >>
Uri Avnery: A bruised reed
Monday, 3 September 2007, 12:28 am | Uri Avnery
IN THE year 701 BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib besieged Jerusalem. The Bible records the words which the Assyrian general, Rabshakeh, addressed to Hezekiah, king of Judah: "Now, behold, thou trusteth upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, ... More >>
Uri Avnery: White Elephants
Sunday, 5 August 2007, 11:39 pm | Uri Avnery
THE KING of Siam knew how to deal with domestic opponents: he would present them with a white elephant. White elephants are rare in nature, and therefore sacred. Being sacred, they may not be put to work. But even a sacred elephant does eat, and ... More >>
