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Uri Avnery: The Height of Kitsch
Monday, 7 December 2009, 11:14 am | Uri Avnery
IT WOULD have been the epitome of political kitsch. Binyamin Netanyahu and ten of his ministers were to hold a joint meeting with Angela Merkel and ten members of the German cabinet. What for? To demonstrate Germany’s love for Israel. At the ... More >>
Friedman's Idea: "...And A Little Child Shall Lead Them"
Monday, 30 November 2009, 11:17 am | Uri Avnery
THOMAS FRIEDMAN, the New York Times columnist, has an idea. That happens to him quite often. One might almost say - too often It goes like this: The US will turn its back on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The entire world will follow. Everybody is fed ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Federation? Why Not?
Monday, 23 November 2009, 12:19 pm | Uri Avnery
THESE DAYS mark the 5th anniversary of the murder of Yasser Arafat, and bring back to me our last conversation in his Ramallah compound, a few weeks before his death. It was he who brought up the idea of a threefold federation – Israel, Palestine ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Scoundrel With Permission
Monday, 16 November 2009, 11:26 am | Uri Avnery
This means that no war has broken out, no suicide bomb has exploded, no Qassam rocket has been launched at Sderot. Ahmadinejad has not test-fired a new missile that can reach Tel Aviv. Just another murder. Not that Israel is the world’s murder capital. ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Line in the Sand
Monday, 9 November 2009, 9:51 am | Uri Avnery
MAHMOUD ABBAS is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the Palestinian Authority. I understand him. He feels betrayed. And the traitor is Barack Obama. More >>
Uri Avnery: Count Me Out
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 10:49 pm | Uri Avnery
A YEAR before the Oslo agreement, I had a meeting with Yasser Arafat in Tunis. He was full of curiosity about Yitzhak Rabin, who had just been elected Prime Minister. More >>
Uri Avnery: Where Have All the Friendships Gone
Tuesday, 27 October 2009, 10:08 am | Uri Avnery
ACCORDING TO a Chinese saying, if someone in the street tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Slippery Slope
Monday, 19 October 2009, 11:19 am | Uri Avnery
IT IS, of course, all the fault of Judge Richard Goldstone. He is to blame for it, as he is to blame for all the other ills that are befalling us now. He is to blame for the trouble we are having at the UN, both in New York and in Geneva. For the ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Other Israel
Monday, 12 October 2009, 3:14 pm | Uri Avnery
YESTERDAY, OUR table celebrated with Ada Yonath. This “table” just had its 50th anniversary. It started by accident in “ California ”, the Café established at the time by Abie Nathan, who later became famous as the Peace Pilot. Afterwards, ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Story of Betrayal
Monday, 5 October 2009, 2:22 pm | Uri Avnery
TODAY IS the 1196th day in captivity for the soldier Gilad Shalit. A prisoner of war must not be left in captivity. A wounded soldier must not be left in the field. The state signs an unwritten contract with every person who joins the army, and most ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Drama and the Farce
Thursday, 24 September 2009, 11:57 am | Uri Avnery
NO POINT denying it: in the first round of the match between Barack Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama was beaten. Obama had demanded a freeze of all settlement activity, including East Jerusalem, as a condition for convening a tripartite summit meeting, ... More >>
Uri Avnery: UM-Shmum, UM-Boom
Monday, 21 September 2009, 12:41 pm | Uri Avnery
IS THERE no limit to the wiles of those dastardly anti-Semites? Now they have decided to slander the Jews with another blood libel. Not the old accusation of slaughtering Christian children to use their blood for baking Passover matzoth, as in the past, ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Wobbly Stools
Monday, 14 September 2009, 1:12 pm | Uri Avnery
EVEN THE Romans never saw a game like this in their arena: three gladiators fighting against each other, while at the same time each of them has to defend himself against attackers from behind. All three of them – Barack Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu and ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Boycott Revisited
Monday, 7 September 2009, 3:32 pm | Uri Avnery
THE PEOPLE of Sodom, the Bible tells us, were very wicked indeed. They had a nasty habit of putting every passing stranger into one particular bed. If the stranger was too tall, his legs were shortened. If he was too short, his body was stretched ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Tutu’s Prayer
Monday, 31 August 2009, 11:20 am | Uri Avnery
HOW MUCH did the boycott of South Africa actually contribute to the fall of the racist regime? This week I talked with Desmond Tutu about this question, which has been on my mind for a long time. No one is better qualified to answer this question than ... More >>
Uri Avnery: The Bogie Horror Show
Monday, 24 August 2009, 9:20 am | Uri Avnery
MY FIRST thought was: Good God, this man was responsible for the lives of our soldiers! The second thought was: What’s the big surprise? You always knew what kind of person he was! After all, during his years as the army’s Chief of Staff he quietly supported ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Whose Acre?
Monday, 17 August 2009, 4:12 pm | Uri Avnery
THE ANCIENT port of Acre is now the object of a fierce battle. The Arab inhabitants of the town want the port to bear the name of an Arab hero, Issa al Awam, a general under Saladin, the Muslim leader who defeated the Crusaders. The municipality of ... More >>
Uri Avnery: Lover of the Country
Monday, 10 August 2009, 4:08 pm | Uri Avnery
ON THE morrow of the Six-day War, Amos Kenan came to my editorial office. He was in a state of shock. As a reserve soldier, he had just witnessed the emptying of three villages in the Latrun area. Men and women, old people and children, had been ... More >>
Uri Avnery: A Jeremiad
Monday, 3 August 2009, 3:03 pm | Uri Avnery
DEAR DOV YERMIYA, I have received the distressing letter that you recently sent to a limited number of friends. You paint the Israeli reality in dark – but true – colors, and end by cutting your ties with it. More >>
Uri Avnery: The Johnny Procedure
Monday, 20 July 2009, 12:13 pm | Uri Avnery
LIKE THE ghost of Hamlet’s father, the evil spirit of the Gaza War refuses to leave us in peace. This week it came back to disturb the tranquility of the chiefs of the state and the army. More >>
