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Uri Avnery: A Freedom Ride
Tuesday, 23 January 2007, 11:56 am | Uri Avnery
Mahatma Gandhi would have loved it. Nelson Mandela would have saluted. Martin Luther King would have been the most excited - it would have reminded him of the old days. More >>
Uri Avnery: What Makes Sammy Run?
Wednesday, 10 January 2007, 3:00 pm | Uri Avnery
"I DON'T care about the principles! All that I want is that my wife can live with me and that we can raise a family!" cried out the engaging young man on the TV talk show. More >>
Uri Avnery: Kiss of death
Monday, 8 January 2007, 9:59 am | Uri Avnery
After being boycotted by Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert for years, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) was invited to the official residence of the Prime Minister of Israel two weeks ago. There, in front of the cameras, Olmert embraced him and kissed him warmly ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Sorry, Wrong Continent
Thursday, 28 December 2006, 6:15 pm | Uri Avnery
A FEW weeks ago, the 15th Asian games, the "Asiad", was held in Qatar. The Israeli media treated the event with a mixture of derision and pity. Some kind of picturesque Asian circus. Our television showed an exotic horseman with a keffiyeh at the opening ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Back To The Scene Of The Crime
Monday, 18 December 2006, 2:12 pm | Uri Avnery
WHEN THE Israeli government decided, in the space of a few hours, to start the Second Lebanon War, it did not have any plan. When the Chief-of-Staff urged the cabinet to start the war, he did not submit any plan. More >>
Uri Avnery: Baker's Cake
Tuesday, 12 December 2006, 1:45 pm | Uri Avnery
NO ONE likes to admit a mistake. Me neither. But honesty leaves me no choice. A few days after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, I happened to go on a lecture tour in the US. My message was optimistic. I expected some good to come ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Sparkling Bubble
Tuesday, 5 December 2006, 6:02 pm | Uri Avnery
A FRIEND of mine, who was brought up in Egypt, took part in the interrogation of Egyptian officers captured in the 1956 Sinai war. An Egyptian lieutenant-colonel told him: "Every time David Ben-Gurion gave a speech declaring that he was holding ... More >>
Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh
Monday, 27 November 2006, 6:07 pm | Uri Avnery
DURING THE first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. More >>
Uri Avnery: Grossman's Dilemma
Monday, 20 November 2006, 3:32 pm | Uri Avnery
THE KEY word was "Hamas". It was spoken from the tribune and appeared on printed material - but in two very different ways. On the tribune of the large annual memorial rally for Yitzhak Rabin, two weeks ago, the writer David Grossman, the sole speaker ... More >>
Uri Avnery: In One Word: MASSACRE!
Monday, 13 November 2006, 1:13 pm | Uri Avnery
"THANK GOD for the American elections," our ministers and generals sighed with relief. They were not rejoicing at the kick that the American people delivered to George W. Bush's ass this week. They love Bush, after all. More >>
Uri Avnery: Lovable Man
Monday, 6 November 2006, 3:28 pm | Uri Avnery
IN ITS original German form - Lieberman - the name means "lovable man". It is hard to imagine a name less appropriate for the new Deputy Prime Minister of Israel. More >>
Uri Avnery: Who Is Afraid Of The Iranian Bomb?
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:49 pm | Uri Avnery
AT THE height of the epic Battle of Britain in 1940, when British airmen were killed at an appalling rate ("never was so much owed by so many to so few"), an official in charge of propaganda had a bright idea to raise morale. On the walls at the Royal ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Ehud von Olmert
Thursday, 2 November 2006, 2:42 pm | Uri Avnery
THE NAME of Franz von Papen is familiar to everyone who knows the history of the German republic that was born after World War I and that died when Hitler came to power. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Great Experiment
Monday, 16 October 2006, 12:37 am | Uri Avnery
IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the governments of Israel and the United States, in close cooperation with Europe, are ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Lunch In Damascus
Monday, 9 October 2006, 1:32 pm | Uri Avnery
ONCE, WHILE traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver - a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in vain to convince him of the desirability of peace with the Arabs. In our country, which has never seen ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Muhammad's Sword
Monday, 25 September 2006, 2:46 pm | Uri Avnery
Since the days when Roman Emperors threw Christians to the lions, the relations between the emperors and the heads of the church have undergone many changes. More >>
Uri Avnery : Help! Peacemongers!
Monday, 18 September 2006, 12:14 am | Uri Avnery
GUESS WHOSE words these are: "Starting this war was a scandal ... It was possible to solve the problem of the missiles in South Lebanon by diplomatic means ... The offensive of the last two days of the war, in which 33 soldiers were killed after ... More >>
Uri Avnery: "Left, But…"
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:25 am | Uri Avnery
I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word "but". For example: "Some of my best friends are Jews, but…", "I have nothing against blacks, but…", ... More >>
Uri Avnery: State of Chutzpah
Monday, 11 September 2006, 12:25 am | Uri Avnery
IN EVERY language there are some words that cannot be properly translated into any other. It seems that they express something intimately connected with the speakers of that language and rooted in their history, traditions and reality. Such words ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Bees in the Lion's Carcass
Friday, 1 September 2006, 11:40 am | Uri Avnery
EHUD OLMERT has found a convincing proof of his great victory over Hassan Nasrallah: "I am touring the country freely while Nasrallah is hiding in his bunker!" More >>
