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Uri Avnery: A Miracle of Rare Device
Tuesday, 23 August 2005, 12:44 am | Uri Avnery
A picture engraved in memory: Ariel Sharon in the Knesset. Around him the storm is raging. The Members rush about, shouts ring out from all sides. The Member on the podium waves his arms, denounces and curses him. Sharon sitting at the government ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The War of the Colors
Tuesday, 12 July 2005, 11:20 am | Uri Avnery
A visitor to Israel at this time may get the impression that the country is in the throes of a contest between two football teams - orange and blue. More >>
Uri Avnery: Arik's Horror Show
Monday, 4 July 2005, 9:17 am | Uri Avnery
All the world saw the horror on TV: a Palestinian boy lying on the ground, unconscious. An Israeli soldier bending over him, not knowing what to do. A settler coming up from behind and throwing a stone at the head of the injured Palestinian. Another ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Day After
Monday, 27 June 2005, 11:06 am | Uri Avnery
This week, the country was shocked by a terrifying train accident. A heavy truck was crossing the tracks as a train approached at high speed. The locomotive driver saw the truck but could not stop in time. The truck driver saw the train but couldn't ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Three in a Bed
Monday, 13 June 2005, 11:31 am | Uri Avnery
"The President of the United States and the President of the Palestinian Authority!" intoned the voice, as the two leaders appeared before the journalists during the recent visit of Mahmud Abbas to the White House. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Bogeyman
Tuesday, 7 June 2005, 10:49 am | Uri Avnery
While the new Chief-of-Staff, Air Force general Dan Halutz, was assuming his new job, I stood with a group of demonstrators at the gate of the General Staff building, to protest against his appointment. Our slogan was: "You have blood on your wings!" ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Buying Off The Settlers
Monday, 30 May 2005, 5:02 pm | Uri Avnery
Perhaps there are countries where drivers stuck in traffic jams don't get annoyed. They know they can do nothing about it, so they wait patiently. Think their own thoughts, listen to the radio or read until the jam disperses. More >>
Uri Avnery: Death of a Myth
Monday, 16 May 2005, 1:10 pm | Uri Avnery
The uproar has been raging for two weeks so far, and is showing no sign of abating. Israel is shaken to the core - is it the postponed "disengagement plan? Is it the killing of demonstrators against the Wall? No, it's a song. More >>
Uri Avnery: "Aren't You Ashamed?"
Monday, 9 May 2005, 11:38 am | Uri Avnery
The car stopped for a moment. An elderly lady pushed her head out of the window and shouted; "Aren't you ashamed of yourselves? Today is Holocaust Day, and you are demonstrating for Arabs?!" More >>
Uri Avnery: Jinn In The Ballot Box
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 10:18 am | Uri Avnery
We were gazing over the roofs of Cairo through the windows of an elegant, modern office. My companion was a scion of the local aristocracy and one of the founders of Egyptian Marxism. More >>
Uri Avnery: Paved With Bad Intentions
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 11:32 am | Uri Avnery
Last week, the mainstream peace organizations held a demonstration in support of Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan. I hesitated for days whether to join or not. The question continues to bother me, and the discussions on this subject are going on ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Remember What? Remember How?
Monday, 21 March 2005, 11:54 am | Uri Avnery
It was an impressive ceremony: the UN Secretary-General, presidents, ministers, prime ministers and notables from 40 countries gathered in Jerusalem to inaugurate the new Holocaust museum of Yad Vashem - only a few months after the mighty of the earth ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Bush's Guru
Monday, 14 March 2005, 11:47 am | Uri Avnery
An American and a Soviet soldier meet in Berlin in 1945 and get into an argument about which of their countries is more democratic. More >>
Uri Avnery: Beware Of The Dog!
Monday, 21 February 2005, 6:11 pm | Uri Avnery
It is not very flattering to be paraded like a Rottweiler on a leash, whose master threatens to let him loose on his enemies. But this is our situation now. More >>
Avnery: Sharm-al-Sheikh, We Have Come Back Again
Tuesday, 15 February 2005, 3:05 pm | Uri Avnery
Nobody called it the ''Ophira Conference''. Not even the papers of the extreme right. Who today even remembers the name Ophira, which was given to Sharm-al-Sheikh during the Israeli occupation, as a first step to its annexation? More >>
Uri Avnery: Dunam After Dunam
Monday, 7 February 2005, 1:57 pm | Uri Avnery
What would we say if an American institution, holding a seventh of all the land in the United States, adopted statutes that allowed it to sell or rent land only to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants? More >>
Uri Avnery: The Stalemate
Monday, 31 January 2005, 11:20 am | Uri Avnery
Perhaps the second intifada has come to an end. Perhaps the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip will develop into a general, mutual cease-fire. More >>
Uri Avnery: King George
Monday, 24 January 2005, 11:06 am | Uri Avnery
When King George V died, we got a day off from school as a sign of mourning. Palestine was then a part of the British Empire, which ruled the country under a League of Nations mandate. To this very day, a central street in Tel-Aviv, not far from my ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Who Envies Abu-Mazen?
Monday, 17 January 2005, 10:31 am | Uri Avnery
Now it’s official: ''the First Democracy in the Arab World'' or ''the Second Democracy in the Middle East'' has been born. More >>
Uri Avnery: A Wreath For Blair
Monday, 27 December 2004, 5:57 pm | Uri Avnery
This week's curious incident concerns the wreath of Tony Blair. The wreath that he did not lay on the grave of Yasser Arafat. Elementary, dear Watson. Blair did go to the graveside. But he omitted the natural and customary thing: laying a wreath. ... More >>
