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THE SHOT HEARD ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
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SHELDON’S STOOGES: NETANYAHU AND THE KING OF VEGAS
Sunday, July 26th, 2015In Israel, democracy is described as "all for one and one for all". In other words, it's all the same. Uri Avnery explains the paradox of a one-opinion country. In Japan in the good old days, Binyamin Netanyahu would by now have committed hara-kiri. In England at that time, the monarch would ...
THE MOST SUCCESSFUL TERRORIST OF THE 20th CENTURY?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2012It's between the devil and the deep blue sea as Uri Avnery looks at two former Israeli prime ministers - Yitzhak Shamir and Ehud Olmert. And add to them, Binyamin Netanyahu, their current successor, "who has the vices of both and the virtues of neither". Two former Prime Ministers of Israel ...
POISONING ARAFAT
Wednesday, July 11th, 2012Arafat wanted peace. He was influential and could convince Palestinians to accept peace with Israel. That's why he is dead argues Uri Avnery. For me, there was no surprise. From the very first day, I was convinced that Yasser Arafat had been poisoned by Ariel Sharon. I even wrote about it ...
GÜNTER THE TERRIBLE
Sunday, April 15th, 2012Nobel Prize winner Günter Grass's poem was much ado about nothing? Well not quite, argues Uri Avnery. Stop me if I have told you this joke before: Somewhere in the US, a demonstration takes place. The police arrive and beat the protesters mercilessly. "Don't hit me," someone shouts, "I am an anti-communist!" "I couldn't ...
ISRAEL’S NEW PROTEST MOVEMENT
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011Beware the congenital pragmatist bearing gifts of unity and common sense. Israel, for the first time in a long time, has some hard choices to make with a new protest movement demanding social justice. Alas, the elites are already talking about new threats that require costly new weapons. A modern ...
‘HOW GODLY ARE THY TENTS?’
Monday, August 8th, 2011By Uri Avnery First of all, a warning. Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government. At that point, there will be a temptation - perhaps an irresistible temptation - to "warm ...
GANDHI’S WISDOM
Thursday, October 7th, 2010In 1970, when peace activist Uri Avnery brought up the two-state solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict, he was shot down. And even if the two-state solution is currently talked about, the focus is on separation and not on a desire for reconciliation between the two peoples. Surfing the television channels, I ...
OLMERT AND THE JACKALS
Thursday, August 12th, 2010On August 30, 2009 an indictment against former prime minister Ehud Olmert was served at the Jerusalem District Court, writes wikipedia. The indictment includes the following counts: obtaining by fraud under aggravating circumstances, fraud, breach of trust, falsifying corporate documents and tax evasion. The indictment refers to three out of ...