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Avnery: An End Foreseen
Znet Article, February, 14 2008
Uri Avnery
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"A fool learns from his experience. An intelligent person learns from the experience of others." To which one could add: "And an idiot does not even learn from his own experience."
Avnery: From Stalingrad to Winograd
Znet Article, February, 07 2008
Uri Avnery
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All eyes were fixed on the raised blade of the Winograd commission...
Avnery: The Beilin Syndrome
Znet Article, January, 02 2008
Uri Avnery
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Yossi Beilin, who resigned this week as chairman of the Meretz party, is Mephisto's opposite: he always wants the good and all too often creates the bad.
Avnery: Help! A Cease Fire!
Znet Article, December, 24 2007
Uri Avnery
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The chief of the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, has approached an Israeli newspaper and proposed a cease-fire. No more Qassams, no more mortars, no suicide bombings, no Israeli military incursions into the Strip, no "targeted ...
Avnery: To die with the Philistines?
Znet Article, December, 20 2007
Uri Avnery
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According to the Biblical story, Samson took hold of the central pillars of the Philistine temple and brought down the whole building upon the Lords of the Philistines, the people of Gaza and himself. The teller of the story sums it all up: "So th...
Avnery: How they stole the bomb from us
Znet Article, December, 12 2007
Uri Avnery
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A real catastrophe: the American intelligence community, comprising 16 different agencies, reached a unanimous verdict: already in 2003, the Iranians terminated their efforts to produce a nuclear bomb, and they have not resumed them since. Even if...
Avnery: So What About Iran?
Znet Article, October, 04 2007
Uri Avnery
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It is no secret that the Pro-Israel lobby and its allies - the (mostly Jewish) neo-cons and the Christian Zionists - are pushing America into this war, j...
Avnery: An Israeli Love Story
Znet Article, July, 16 2007
Uri Avnery
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NOT SINCE the resurrection of Jesus Christ has there been such a miracle: a dead body buried in a cave has come to life again. The "Jordanian Option" gave up its ghost almost twenty years ago. Even before that, it never was very healthy. But in...
Avnery: The Dirty Word
Znet Article, July, 04 2007
Uri Avnery
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THERE NEVER was a darker Middle East summit meeting. The darkest there can be.The four leaders at Sharm al-Sheik did not sit together at an intimate round table. Each one ...
Avnery: Saving President Abbas
Znet Article, June, 27 2007
Uri Avnery
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EHUD OLMERT is the opposite of Midas, King of Phrygia. Everything the king touched turned into gold, according to Greek legend. Everything Olmert touches turns into lead. And that is no legend. Now he is touching Mahmoud Abbas. He lauds him to hi...
Avnery: Crocodile Tears
Znet Article, June, 18 2007
Uri Avnery
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WHAT HAPPENS when one and a half million human beings are imprisoned in a tiny, arid territory, cut off from their compatriots and from any contact with t...
Avnery: To the Shores of Tripoli
Znet Article, June, 01 2007
Uri Avnery
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THE BLOODY battles that have erupted around the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp near Tripoli in Lebanon remind us that the refugee problem has not disappeared. On the contrary, 60 years after the "Nakba", the Palestinian catastrophe of 1948, it is agai...
Avnery: The Bed of Sodom
Znet Article, April, 30 2007
Uri Avnery
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In Hebrew legend, the bed of Sodom is a symbol of evil. The Bible tells how God decided to obliterate Sodom because of the wickedness of its people (Genesis, 18). The legend gives us an example of this wickedness: the special bed for visitors. Whe...
Avnery: Abolish the JNF
Znet Article, April, 21 2007
Uri Avnery
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What would we say if an American institution, holding a seventh of all the land in the United States, adopted statutes that allowed it to sell or rent land only to White Anglo-Saxon Protestants? We would not believe it. And it is, indeed, impossi...
Avnery: Without Borders
Znet Article, March, 29 2007
Uri Avnery
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INCREDIBLE! In Palestinian schoolbooks, there is no trace of the Green Line! They do not recognize...
Avnery: Unity Government
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
Uri Avnery
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NOT ONLY the Palestinians must be breathing a deep sigh of relief after the swearing in of the Palestinian National Unity Government. We Israelis have good reason to do the same. This event is a great blessing, not only for them, but also for us -...
Avnery: Olmert's Truth
Znet Article, March, 19 2007
Uri Avnery
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IF GOD wills, even a broomstick wil...
Avnery: Kill Them! Kill Everyone! All Of Them!
Znet Article, November, 28 2006
Uri Avnery
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During the first Lebanon war, I visited Jounieh, a town some 20 km north of Beirut. At the time, it served as a port for the Christian forces. It was an exciting evening. In spite of the war raging in nearby Beirut, Jounieh was full of life. The ...
Avnery: In One Word: MASSACRE!
Znet Article, November, 16 2006
Uri Avnery
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In One Word: MASSACRE!
Avnery: Ehud von Olmert
Znet Article, November, 14 2006
Uri Avnery
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THE NAME of Franz von Papen is familiar to everyone who knows the history of the German republic that was born after World War I and that died when Hitler came to power. What made him deserving of a place in history? Not his talents. On the contr...
