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Uri Avnery: A Warning to Tony
Monday, 30 July 2007, 7:00 pm | Uri Avnery
LAST WEEK, James Wolfensohn gave a long interview to Haaretz. He poured out his heart and summed up, with amazing openness, his months as special envoy of the US, Russia, the EU and the UN (the "Quartet") in this country - the same job entrusted ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Trap for Fools
Monday, 23 July 2007, 10:54 am | Uri Avnery
IN A classical American western, the difference is as glaring as the midday sun in Colorado: there are Good Guys and Bad Guys. The good ones are the settlers, who are making the prairie bloom. The bad ones are the Indians, who are blood-thirsty savages. ... More >>
Saving President Abbas
Friday, 29 June 2007, 1:45 pm | Uri Avnery
23/06/07EHUD OLMERT is the opposite of Midas, King of Phrygia. Everything the king touched turned into gold, according to Greek legend. Everything Olmert touches turns into lead. And that is no legend. More >>
1967 - A Personal Testimony / Uri Avnery
Friday, 29 June 2007, 1:43 pm | Uri Avnery
ON MAY 25, 1967, twelve days before the Six-day war, I published in Haolam Hazeh, the news magazine of which I was the editor, an article entitled "Nasser Has Fallen Into a Trap". That sounded crazy, because, at the time, all Israel was ... More >>
Crocodile Tears
Monday, 18 June 2007, 2:20 pm | Uri Avnery
WHAT HAPPENS when one and a half million human beings are imprisoned in a tiny, arid territory, cut off from their compatriots and from any contact with the outside world, starved by an economic blockade and unable to feed their families? More >>
Uri Avnery: "…To the Shores of Tripoli"
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 2:08 pm | Uri Avnery
This is an open wound. Anyone who imagines that a solution to the Israel-Arab conflict is possible without healing this wound is deluding himself. More >>
Uri Avnery: A Swiss Cheese
Thursday, 24 May 2007, 12:11 am | Uri Avnery
THE WINOGRAD committee of inquiry is not a part of the solution. It is a part of the problem. Now, after the first excitement caused by the publication of the partial report has died down, it is possible to evaluate it. The conclusion is that it has ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Hope not Lost
Tuesday, 1 May 2007, 7:59 pm | Uri Avnery
ON THE MORROW of Independence Day, a newspaper reported that an Arab child had refused to stand up while the national anthem was sung. The paper was furious. I was not. In fact, it raised a childhood experience from the depths of my memory.More >>
A Hope not Lost
Sunday, 29 April 2007, 1:28 pm | Uri Avnery
ON THE MORROW of Independence Day, a newspaper reported that an Arab child had refused to stand up while the national anthem was sung. The paper was furious. I was not. In fact, it raised a childhood experience from the depths of my memory. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Bed of Sodom
Wednesday, 25 April 2007, 12:37 am | Uri Avnery
IN HEBREW legend, the bed of Sodom is a symbol of evil. The Bible tells how God decided to obliterate Sodom because of the wickedness of its people (Genesis, 18). The legend gives us an example of this wickedness: the special bed for visitors. When a stranger ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Blood On Our Hands
Tuesday, 17 April 2007, 12:24 am | Uri Avnery
The term "negotiations" is really inappropriate. "Haggling" seems more fitting. One could also use an uglier expression: "trafficking in human beings". More >>
Uri Avnery: Shalom, Shin Bet
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:47 am | Uri Avnery
RECENTLY, THE CHIEF of the Shin Bet declared that the "Israeli Arabs", a fifth of Israel's population, constitute a danger to the state. He requested permission for the General Security Service to act against anyone who aims at changing the official ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Pussycat
Monday, 2 April 2007, 2:20 pm | Uri Avnery
CAN A pantheress turn into a pussycat? Impossible, a zoologist would say. But last week, we saw it happen with our own eyes. Condoleezza Rice came here to teach Ehud Olmert, once and for all, who is boss. The President of the United States wants to ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Without Borders
Monday, 26 March 2007, 3:27 pm | Uri Avnery
INCREDIBLE! In Palestinian schoolbooks, there is no trace of the Green Line! They do not recognize the existence of Israel even in the 1967 borders! They say that the "Zionist gangs" stole the country from the Arabs! That's how they poison the ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Inshallah
Monday, 19 March 2007, 2:37 pm | Uri Avnery
NOT ONLY the Palestinians must be breathing a deep sigh of relief after the swearing in of the Palestinian National Unity Government. We Israelis have good reason to do the same. More >>
Uri Avnery: Olmert's Truth
Monday, 12 March 2007, 2:32 pm | Uri Avnery
IF GOD wills, even a broomstick will shoot. That is an old Yiddish adage. One could add now: If God wills, even Olmert can sometimes tell the truth. More >>
Uri Avnery: Facing Mecca
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 6:31 pm | Uri Avnery
MUST A Native-American recognize the right of the United States of America to exist? Interesting question. The USA was established by Europeans who invaded a continent that did not belong to them, eradicated most of the indigenous population (the "Red ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Book of Esterina
Monday, 5 March 2007, 8:39 pm | Uri Avnery
"PATRIOTISM," SAID Dr. Samuel Johnson over 200 years ago, "is the last refuge of a scoundrel." If we substitute racism for patriotism, then we have a perfect match with the Esterina Tartman affair. More >>
Uri Avnery: "You And I, And The Next War"
Monday, 26 February 2007, 10:01 am | Uri Avnery
"WE ARE ready for the next war," a reserve soldier told a TV reporter this week, on the scene of a brigade-size maneuver on the Golan Heights. What war? Against whom? About what? This was not stated, and not even asked. The soldier saw it as self-evident ... More >>
Uri Avnery: "If Arafat were Alive…"
Monday, 29 January 2007, 12:40 am | Uri Avnery
"IF ARAFAT were alive…" one hears this phrase increasingly often in conversations with Palestinians, and also with Israelis and foreigners. More >>
