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  • On The Road To Civil War
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it. Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the Palestinians...
    by URI AVNERY
    Everybody in Israel is talking about the Next War. The most popular TV channel is running a whole series about it.
    Not another war with the Arabs. Not the nuclear threat from Iran. Not the ongoing bloody confrontation with the (…)

  • Eggs In One Basket
    11 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What would happen if Americans started to wonder about the roots of the terrorism of Islamic fanatics? Won’t there be some who would argue that America got into the Clash of Civilizations with the Muslim world only because of Israel?
    by URI AVNERY
    About a hundred years ago, the Russian Czar’s secret police cobbled together a document they called the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The "authors" were not particularly original - they took a satire, written decades earlier about Napoleon (…)

  • The Temple Mount Bombers
    21 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    di Uri Avnery
    The Security Service is haunted by a terrible fear: that another Israeli Prime Minister will be assassinated. The extreme right-wing, which does not hide its admiration for Yigal Amir and his deed, harbors some who dream of a similar action. After all, if Amir succeeded in murdering the Oslo process, why shouldn’t another Amir succeed in murdering the process of dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip?
    But the Security Service also entertains an even greater fear: (…)

  • Uri Avnery: How Are You, Non-Violence?
    6 September 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery*
    At the mass meeting with Arun Gandhi, the grandson of the Mahatma, in Abu-Dis, I observed the faces of the participants. While Gandhi was preaching non-violence, I imagined a debate between two young Palestinians in the audience.
    Yussuf: “He is right. The armed intifada has failed.
    Hassan: “On the contrary. Without the actions of the martyrs, the world would have forgotten us long ago.”
    Yussuf: “For half a year there were no suicide attacks in Israel, and look what we (…)

  • Israel Must Rethink Prisoner Policy
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    "For all I care, they can starve to death!" announced Tzahi Hanegbi, after Palestinian prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike against prison conditions. Thus the Minister for Internal Security added another memorable phrase to the lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    Hanegbi became famous (or infamous) for the first time when, as a student activist, he was caught on camera with his friends hunting Arab students with bicycle chains. At the time I published a (…)

  • The US elections as open season for Israel
    17 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Uri Avnery
    Once upon a time, an assistant to Levy Eshkol, our [Israeli] late prime minister, rushed up to him and cried: "Levy, a disaster! A drought has set in!"
    "Where?" the prime minister asked anxiously, "in Texas?"
    "No, here in Israel!" the man replied.
    "Then there’s nothing to worry about," Eshkol said dismissively.
    Right from the beginning, the State of Israel has been critically affected by events in the United States. "If America sneezes, Israel catches cold," is the (…)

  • Uri Avnery: the Skin of the Bear
    25 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Uri Avnery
    The strategy of Sharon and his generals is simple and brutal: to destroy the Palestinian Authority, turn life in the occupied territories into hell, disintegrate Palestinian society and drive the survivors from the country, not in one dramatic sweep (as in 1948) but in a slow, continuous, creeping process."
    I am writing this with an aching heart. I have postponed writing it as long as I could.
    In Jewish tradition, there is a searing phrase: "The Temple was not destroyed (…)

  • The Hoax of Paris Marie and the Ghosts
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By URI AVNERY
    Sometimes a trivial episode throws a revealing light on a grave public disease.
    A classic example: the Captain of Koepenick. On the face of it, it was a minor criminal incident: in 1906, a shoemaker named Wilhelm Voigt was released from prison, after serving a sentence for forgery. To get work he needed a passport, which, as a former convict, he could not get.
    So he went to a junk shop and bought the uniform of an army captain, commandeered some soldiers in the street, (…)

  • Justice, Gas and Tears
    6 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    In the silence of the courtroom, there was an audible gasp of surprise and shock when Supreme Justice Aharon Barak, reading the court’s decision, reached the words: “The military commander did not use his discretion in a proportional way, as required.”
    At that moment the veteran peace activists who filled the room realized that they had won.
    Four days before, we could not have dreamt of that. We were far from the sterile silence of the beautiful Supreme Court building: a (…)

  • Irreversible Mental Damage
    20 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By: Uri Avnery*
    Two weeks ago, the international community made a shocking declaration.
    Giving in to a demand by George Bush, the “Quartet” accepted the “Revised Disengagement Plan” of Ariel Sharon. This means that the United Nations, the European Union, the Russian Federation and the United States confirmed this document. I wonder if any one of the honorable diplomats has read the document with their own eyes.
    In the first paragraph of the “plan”, the following words appear: “ Israel (…)