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Uri Avnery: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”
Sunday, 7 August 2011, 3:26 pm | Uri Avnery
Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government. At that point, there will be a temptation – perhaps an irresistible temptation ... More >>
Charge of the New York Times or:Baksheesh for the Doorkeepe
Tuesday, 26 July 2011, 1:32 pm | Uri Avnery
A Riddle: Which fleet did not reach its destination but fulfilled its mission? Well, it’s this year’s Gaza solidarity flotilla. It could be said, of course, that last year’s “little fleet” – that’s what the word means in Spanish, much ... More >>
The future of Israeli democracy is shrouded in doubt
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 4:10 pm | Uri Avnery
It is a miracle, because it did not grow slowly over generations, like Anglo-Saxon democracy. There was no democracy in the Jewish shtetl. Neither is there anything like it in Jewish religious tradition. But the Zionist Founding Fathers, mostly West ... More >>
It Can Happen Here!
Tuesday, 19 July 2011, 12:00 pm | Uri Avnery
Hebrew had been a dead language for many generations, more or less like Latin, when it was still used in the Catholic church. Then, suddenly, concurrent with the emergence of Zionism (but independently) it sprang back to life. This never happened to any ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Instilled Memory
Tuesday, 12 July 2011, 12:54 pm | Uri Avnery
FOR SEVERAL weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: ten little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of ... More >>
Instilled Memory
Monday, 11 July 2011, 12:54 pm | Uri Avnery
For several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: ten little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of ... More >>
The Jewish Ayatollahs
Thursday, 7 July 2011, 3:22 pm | Uri Avnery
The Archbishop of New York announces that any Catholic who rents out an apartment to a Jew commits a mortal sin and runs the risk of excommunication. A protestant priest in Berlin decrees that a Christian who employs a Jew will be banished from ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Bibi and the Yo-Yos
Friday, 27 May 2011, 1:56 pm | Uri Avnery
There they were, the members of the highest legislative bodies of the world’s only superpower, flying up and down like so many yo-yos, applauding wildly, every few minutes or seconds, the most outrageous lies and distortions of Binyamin Netanyahu. More >>
Uri Avnery: “Rejoice Not…”
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 2:09 pm | Uri Avnery
“REJOICE NOT when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, / Lest the Lord see [it], and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.”. More >>
ONE word: Bravo!
Monday, 2 May 2011, 11:58 am | Uri Avnery
The news about the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas is good for peace. If the final difficulties are ironed out and a full agreement is signed by the two leaders, it will be a huge step forward for the Palestinians – and for us. More >>
Uri Avnery : The Gold and the Stone
Sunday, 10 April 2011, 8:19 pm | Uri Avnery
THERE IS something tragicomic about the persona of Richard Goldstone. First there was a veritable storm of fury when the original Goldstone report was issued. More >>
Uri Avnery: Napoleon's Dictum
Tuesday, 5 April 2011, 1:33 pm | Uri Avnery
IT WAS Napoleon who said that it is better to fight against a coalition than to fight as part of one. Coalitions mean trouble. To conduct a successful military operation, one needs a unified command and a clear, agreed upon aim. Both are rare in coalitions. ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Who is annexing Whom?
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 3:56 pm | Uri Avnery
IN A rare late-night session, the Knesset has finally adopted two obnoxious racist laws. Both are clearly directed against Israel’s Arab citizens, a fifth of the population. More >>
Uri Avnery: Tsunami in Egypt
Tuesday, 15 February 2011, 4:07 pm | Uri Avnery
UNTIL THE very last moment, the Israeli leadership tried to keep Hosni Mubarak in power. It was hopeless. Even the mighty United States was impotent when faced with this tsunami of popular outrage. In the end it settled for second best: a pro-Western ... More >>
A Villa in the Jungle?
Monday, 7 February 2011, 11:37 am | Uri Avnery
WE ARE in the middle of a geological event. An earthquake of epoch-making dimensions is changing the landscape of our region. Mountains turn into valleys, islands emerge from the sea, volcanoes cover the land with lava. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Aljazeera Scandal
Saturday, 29 January 2011, 3:24 pm | Uri Avnery
I ALWAYS thought this a specifically Israeli trait: whenever a scandal of national proportions breaks out, we ignore the crucial issues and focus our attention on some secondary detail. This spares us having to face the real problems and making painful ... More >>
Lebanon is in crisis. And what is new?
Monday, 17 January 2011, 10:56 am | Uri Avnery
The Crown and the Coals Since the founding of the state, 90 years ago, the word “crisis” has been inseparably linked with its name From the Israeli perspective, this crisis has a double significance. First, it endangers the quiet on the Northern border. ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Hi, Joe!
Wednesday, 12 January 2011, 10:12 am | Uri Avnery
GOOD MORNING, Joe. At home In the US, your name is mud. But here you can really feel at home. In your time, you succeeded in infecting all of the US with hysteria. You detected a Soviet agent under every bed. You waved a list of Soviet spies in the ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Nobleman and the Horse
Tuesday, 9 November 2010, 6:32 pm | Uri Avnery
“HALF AND HALF,” the late Prime Minister, Levi Eshkol, is said to have answered, when asked whether he wanted tea or coffee. This joke was intended to parody his hesitation on the eve of the Six-day War. (Though secret documents published this ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Bread and the Circus
Monday, 1 November 2010, 2:53 pm | Uri Avnery
I WAS surprised when, towards the end of 1975, I received an invitation from the Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, to meet him at his residence. He opened the door himself, poured me a glass of whisky, poured one for himself, and without any further ado ... More >>
