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  • Uri Avnery Has Got It Right
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Uri Avnery
    15.7.06
    "The Real Aim
    THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
    That was the aim of Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it. As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US.
    As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the (…)

  • The Real Aim
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
    That was the aim of Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it.
    As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned and is being carried out in full coordination with the US.
    As then, there is no doubt that it is coordinated with a part of the Lebanese elite.
    That’s the main (…)

  • Uri Avnery: Who’s the dog? Who’s the tail?
    24 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    I DON’T usually tell these stories, because they might give rise to the suspicion that I am paranoid.
    For example: 27 years ago, I was invited to give a lecture-tour in 30 American universities, including all the most prestigious ones - Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT, Berkeley and so on. My host was the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a respected non-Jewish organization, but the lectures themselves were to be held under the auspices of the Jewish Bet-Hillel chaplains.
    On (…)

  • Uri Avnery: What the Hell has happened?
    3 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    THE MOST dramatic and the most boring election campaign in our history has mercifully come to an end. Israel looks in the mirror and asks itself: What the hell has happened?
    On the way to the ballot box, in the center of Tel-Aviv, I could not detect the slightest sign that this was election day. Generally, elections in Israel are a passionate affair. Posters everywhere, thousands of slogan-covered cars rushing around ferrying voters to the ballot stations, a lot of noise. (…)

  • "...Shall We Not Revenge?"
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery IF ONE wants to understand what the Palestinians did on election day, one has to see the film "Paradise Now", which has been nominated for an Oscar for the best foreign film, after collecting several prestigious international prizes. It explains better than a million words.
    Its makers - the screen-writer-cum-director, Hani Abu-As’ad from Nazareth, and the actors, are Palestinians. (Amir Harel, one of the producers, is a Jewish Israeli.)
    The two main characters, Sa’id and (…)

  • Pity the Orphan
    23 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    IT WAS a colorful day in Bil’in. Political flags of many colors were fluttering in the brisk breeze, the vivid election posters and the colorful graffiti on the walls adding their bit. It was the biggest demonstration in the beleaguered village for a long time. This week, the protest against the Fence was interwoven with Palestinian electioneering.
    I was happily marching along in the wintry sunshine, holding high the Gush Shalom emblem of the flags of Israel and Palestine (…)

  • The Pied Piper
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    SOME 721 YEARS ago, the town of Hamelin in Germany was suffering from a plague of rats. A citizen called Bunting offered to get rid of them for an agreed fee. When he played on his flute, the entranced rats came out of their holes and followed him to the river where they drowned. But when the piper presented his bill to the town fathers, they wouldn’t pay him.
    The piper wrought a terrible revenge. He played his pipe once again, and this time all the children of the town (…)

  • Two Earthquakes
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    A POLITICAL earthquake is itself a rare event. When two major political earthquakes follow each other in quick succession, this is almost unheard of.
    One such earthquake was the election of Amir Peretz as leader of the Labor Party. The other is Sharon’s leaving the Likud and forming a new party.
    Suddenly, the political landscape has changed beyond recognition. Previously, there were two mountains. Now there are three - and none of them stands where either of the two was (…)

  • A Great Miracle
    17 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "This is a well-known phenomenon in many countries: the most discriminated class of the ruling nation provides the most radical enemies of national minorities and foreigners in general. Those who are trampled-upon trample those beneath them. After being robbed of their self-esteem, they can regain some self-respect only by belonging to a "master race". Thus the poor whites in the United States. The same in France."
    NORTH AFRICAN immigrants on the periphery of French cities (…)

  • Dear Settlers : "Dear" in the most literal sense
    29 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    At long last it must be spelled out, without hypocritical pity, without "if" and "but".
    We have paid billions of shekels in order to settle you in the Gaza Strip. We have paid billions to keep you there, and most of you have lived there at our expense. We paid billions to defend you, and dozens of soldiers, male and female, lost their lives doing this. Now we are paying billions (Eight? Ten? Twelve?) to get you out of there and pay you generous compensation.
    But all this (…)