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Uri Avnery: The State of Bla-Bla-Bla
Thursday, 21 October 2010, 11:50 am | Uri Avnery
WILL GERMANY enact a law that demands that every Turk aspiring to citizenship swear allegiance to the "German Federal Republic, the Nation-State of the German People"? Sounds like a ridiculous idea. Will the US Senate adopt a law that would compel every ... More >>
Uri Avnery: His Father’s Boy
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 10:34 am | Uri Avnery
WHICH IS the real Netanyahu? Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the US or from his coalition partners? The tricky Likud chief, who is ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Two Fingers
Monday, 4 October 2010, 5:36 pm | Uri Avnery
EHUD OLMERT raised his hands before his face, two fingertips almost touching: “We were that close!” He was talking about the negotiation he had conducted personally with Mahmoud Abbas, just before he himself was forced to vacate the Prime Minister’s ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Gandhi’s Wisdom
Monday, 27 September 2010, 9:08 pm | Uri Avnery
SURFING THE television channels, I came across an interview with the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi on an American network (Fox – would you believe it). “My grandfather told us to love the enemy even while fighting him,” he said, “he fought against ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Concept and Contempt
Tuesday, 21 September 2010, 11:31 am | Uri Avnery
single vehicle was moving. We were sunk in conversation with a friend of ours, when something unbelievable happened. The air-raid sirens started to wail. Within minutes, cars started to race down the street at a crazy speed, men were leaving their houses ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Satan of the Details
Monday, 13 September 2010, 3:23 pm | Uri Avnery
THERE IS a story about the man who dictated his will. He divided his property generously, provided for all the members of his family, rewarded his friends and did not forget his servants. More >>
Uri Avnery: Damage Control
Monday, 6 September 2010, 2:54 pm | Uri Avnery
A DUTCH journalist asked me last Wednesday to try and divine the thoughts of Binyamin Netanyahu on his way to Washington. It seems that she was satisfied with the results, because she asked me to divine the thoughts of Mahmoud Abbas, too. She must have ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Red and Green
Sunday, 29 August 2010, 9:31 pm | Uri Avnery
Channel 10 , one of Israel’s three TV channels, aired a report this week that surely frightened a lot of viewers. Its title was "Who is Organizing the World-wide Hatred of Israel Movement?", and its subject: the dozens of groups in various countries ... More >>
Uri Avnery: All Quiet on the Eastern Front
Monday, 2 August 2010, 4:07 pm | Uri Avnery
PEOPLE ENDOWED with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Binyamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front”. More >>
Uri Avnery: Rosemary’s Baby
Monday, 26 July 2010, 1:31 pm | Uri Avnery
SINCE I witnessed the rise of the Nazis during my childhood in Germany, my nose always tickles when it smells something fascist, even when the odor is still faint. When the debate about the “one-state solution” began, my nose tickled. Have you gone ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Parliamentary Mob
Monday, 19 July 2010, 2:54 pm | Uri Avnery
WHEN I was first elected to the Knesset, I was appalled at what I found. I discovered that, with rare exceptions, the intellectual level of the debates was close to zero. They consisted mainly of strings of clichés of the most commonplace variety. During ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Two Sit-Ins
Monday, 12 July 2010, 10:22 am | Uri Avnery
AT THIS moment, two sit-ins are taking place in Jerusalem, two kilometers apart. In West Jerusalem, the Shalit family is sitting in a protest tent in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, swearing to remain there until the return of their ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Broomstick Can Shoot
Monday, 5 July 2010, 12:59 pm | Uri Avnery
A VICTORY is a victory. A big victory is better than a small one, but a small victory is better than a defeat. This week we won. Immediately after the Turkel Commission was set up to investigate the flotilla incident, Gush Shalom filed a petition to ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Shalit, For Example
Monday, 28 June 2010, 5:29 pm | Uri Avnery
I AM composing these lines while looking through the window at the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, and thinking about the young man who is being held not far from this sea, a few dozen kilometers from here. Can Gilad Shalit look out on the ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Flash of Lightning
Tuesday, 22 June 2010, 5:28 pm | Uri Avnery
NIGHT. UTTER darkness. Heavy rain. Visibility close to nil. And suddenly – a flash of lightning. For a fraction of a second, the landscape is lit up. For this split second, the terrain surrounding us can be seen. It is not the way it used to be. ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Who is Afraid of a real Inquiry?
Tuesday, 15 June 2010, 1:14 pm | Uri Avnery
If a real Commission of Inquiry had been set up (instead of the pathetic excuse for a commission), here are some of the questions it should have addressed: 1. What is the real aim of the Gaza Strip blockade? 2. If the aim is to prevent the flow ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Kill a Turk and Rest
Monday, 7 June 2010, 6:25 pm | Uri Avnery
ON THE high seas, outside territorial waters, the ship was stopped by the navy. The commandos stormed it. Hundreds of people on the deck resisted, the soldiers used force. Some of the passengers were killed, scores injured. The ship was brought into ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Day in November
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 5:50 pm | Uri Avnery
RAHM EMANUEL is, so it seems, the American most hated by the leaders of Israel. He is considered the most dangerous opponent of the Netanyahu government in the White House. Behind closed doors, they shower him – if one is to believe the media - ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Hallelujah, the World is Against Us!
Monday, 24 May 2010, 11:45 am | Uri Avnery
A LOCAL TV station told us this week about a group of Israelis who adhere to conspiracy theories. They believe that George W. Bush planned the destruction of the Twin Towers in order to further his wicked aims. They believe that the big pharmaceutical corporations ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Black Hole
Monday, 17 May 2010, 1:19 pm | Uri Avnery
JUST TO die of envy. How the British manage to do these things! What a democracy! What dignity! Elections within a month. A new coalition within five days. A change of government within 70 minutes. A visit to the queen. The departing prime minister ... More >>
