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  • Uri Avnery : A Miracle of Rare Device
    15 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by 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 table. Alone. Immovable. Massive and passive. No muscle in his face is moving. Not even the nervous tic of his nose, that was once his trade-mark (and that many people considered a kind of lie-detector). A rock in the raging sea. (…)

  • Uri Avnery : From Bad to Worse
    6 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    ...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!" ­ a reminder of his remarks when the Air Force dropped a one-ton bomb on a residential area in Gaza, in order to kill Hamas leader Salah Shehadeh. As will be remembered, the bomb also killed 14 uninvolved people, including nine children...
    From Bad to Worse
    by Uri Avnery
    While Israel’s new chief of staff, Air Force (…)

  • 38 YEARS LATER
    2 June 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    And there is no peace. There is no security.
    After the Six-Day War, we could have achieved peace. We could have given back the conquered territories to the Palestinian people and enabled them to set up their state there.
    But the craving for territory made us crazy. Instead of choosing peace and security, we chose settlements.
    The occupation has exacted a terrible price from both peoples: human, social, moral, political and economic.
    ENOUGH!

  • Buying off the settlers
    30 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by 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.
    We Israelis are not like that. We are a nervous lot. We have no patience. When we are stuck in a jam, we curse the world and the government, demanding a solution, perhaps a dirt road by which we might escape.
    This is why I find it so hard to (…)

  • The Hundred Days of Abu Mazen
    18 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    Next Saturday, 100 days since Abu Mazen (Mahmud Abbas) assumed the office of President of the Palestinian National Authority, Jews will celebrate Passover, in memory of the Exodus from Egypt - one of the great stories in human annals.
    According to the story (Exodus 5), Pharaoh ordered the Children of Israel to produce bricks from straw, but did not provide the straw. “And the Children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying: Wherefore dealest thou with thy servants? (…)

  • Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower : the Next Crusades
    9 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By URI AVNERY
    Many years ago, I read a book called "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene. Its central character is a high-minded, naive young American operative in Vietnam. He has no idea about the complexities of that country but is determined to right its wrongs and create order. The results are disastrous.
    I have the feeling that this is happening now in Lebanon. The Americans are not so high-minded and no so naive. Far from it. But they are quite prepared to go into a foreign (…)

  • Iran, Beware of the Attack Dog
    20 February 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    "Naive people believe that after all this, Bush would not risk more adventures of this kind. They are wrong."
    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.
    Vice President Dick Cheney threatened a few weeks ago that if Iran continues to develop its nuclear capabilities, Israel might attack her.
    This week, President George Bush repeated this threat. If he were (…)

  • Widow of Opportunity?
    9 December 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    My immediate reaction to Marwan Barghouti’s registration as a candidate for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority was positive.
    First of all, I am always in favor of the underdog. And who could be more of an underdog than a prisoner?
    Second, I respect the man. I have met him at planning meetings for joint peace actions. I have demonstrated for him in Tel-Aviv and been forcibly evicted from the court building, with a rightist lynch mob howling in the background. (…)

  • Uri Avnery : rejoice not...
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by 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.” This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far from being a “Jewish State”, as it likes to define itself. The disgusting filth poured out over Yasser Arafat during the last few days in practically all the Israeli media makes one ashamed to be an Israeli.
    The (…)

  • Yasser Arafat : a Man and his People
    9 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    Wherever he may be buried when he passes away, the day will come when his remains will be reinterred by a free Palestinian government in the holy shrines in Jerusalem.
    Yasser Arafat is one of the generation of great leaders who arose after World War II.
    The stature of a leader is not simply determined by the size of his achievements, but also by the size of the obstacles he had to overcome. In this respect, Arafat has no competitor in the world: no leader of our (…)