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Znet Article Avnery: The Big Wink

Znet Article, April, 16 2006 Uri Avnery
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"Advance and be recognized!" the recruit on sentry duty calls out when he hears somebody approaching. "Sergeant Johns!" comes the answer. "Advance and be recognized!" the sentry calls again. "I told you already, I'm Sergeant Johns!" comes the ans...

Znet Article Avnery: What the hell has happened?

Znet Article, March, 31 2006 Uri Avnery
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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 dete...

Znet Article Avnery: Whom To Vote For?

Znet Article, March, 26 2006 Uri Avnery
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I BELIEVE this must be about the 15th time that I am writing an article like this one. On the eve of every national election I set out my doubts and hesitations. I do not tell people how to vote. What I am trying to do is help voters (including my...

Znet Article Avnery: A Disgusting Exercise

Znet Article, March, 23 2006 Uri Avnery
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THE CENTRAL theme of this article is disgust. Therefore I apologize in advance for the frequent use of this and similar words. In the thesaurus I find quite a number of synonyms: loathing, revulsion, dislike, nausea, distaste, aversion, antipathy...

Znet Article Avnery: Four-Letter Word

Znet Article, March, 18 2006 Uri Avnery
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IN ENGLISH, a "four-letter word" is a rude expletive. It is a vulgar description of a sexual act or organ, and an educated person will not use it. Now it appears that in the Hebrew language, too, there is a four-letter word, which a decent person...

Znet Article Avnery: Have Pity on a Poor Orphan!

Znet Article, January, 24 2006 Uri Avnery
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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 fo...

Znet Article Avnery: Three Fingers, No Fist

Znet Article, January, 10 2006 Uri Avnery
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Three Fingers, No Fist

Znet Article Avnery: The Pied Piper

Znet Article, December, 20 2005 Uri Avnery
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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...

Znet Article Avnery: Two Earthquakes

Znet Article, November, 28 2005 Uri Avnery
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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 S...

Znet Article Avnery: Interview

Znet Article, September, 11 2005 Uri Avnery
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Uri Avnery's opinions are not to be taken lightly. The most outspoken leader of Israel's peace movement, Avnery has in his own life mirrored the country he helped establish. Born in Germany in 1923, Avnery began his political life as a member of t...

Znet Article Avnery: A Miracle of Rare Device

Znet Article, August, 15 2005 Uri Avnery
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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 ...

Znet Article Avnery: The Moment of Truth

Znet Article, July, 31 2005 Uri Avnery
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The Moment of Truth

Znet Article Avnery: The March of the Orange Shirts

Znet Article, July, 28 2005 Uri Avnery
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For some weeks now, a red light has been flickering in my mind, illuminating a word in large Gothic letters: Weimar. As a 9-year old I saw with my own eyes the collapse of the German republic that came into being after World War I. It was general...

Znet Article Avnery: Arik's Horror Show

Znet Article, July, 06 2005 Uri Avnery
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All the world saw the horror on TV: a Palestinian boy lying on the ground, unconscious. An Israeli soldier bending over him, not knowing what to do. A settler coming up from behind and throwing a stone at the head of the injured Palestinian. Anoth...

Znet Article Avnery: Arik's Horror Show

Znet Article, July, 06 2005 Uri Avnery
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All the world saw the horror on TV: a Palestinian boy lying on the ground, unconscious. An Israeli soldier bending over him, not knowing what to do. A settler coming up from behind and throwing a stone at the head of the injured Palestinian. Anoth...

Znet Article Avnery: The Day After

Znet Article, June, 28 2005 Uri Avnery
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This week, the country was shocked by a terrifying train accident. A heavy truck was crossing the tracks as a train approached at high speed. The locomotive driver saw the truck but could not stop in time. The truck driver saw the train but couldn...

Znet Article Avnery: Red Herring

Znet Article, June, 23 2005 Uri Avnery
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The experience was almost surrealistic: I was in a hall in the centre of Gaza, facing some 500 people, all of them bearded men, nearly all of them Hamas militants. The Hamas movement officially opposes the very existence of the State of Israel, a...

Znet Article Avnery: Death of a Myth

Znet Article, May, 13 2005 Uri Avnery
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The uproar has been raging for two weeks so far, and is showing no sign of abating. Israel is shaken to the core - is it the postponed "disengagement plan? Is it the killing of demonstrators against the Wall? No, it's a song. Like a devout Christ...

Znet Article Avnery: A Tale of Two Demonstrations

Znet Article, May, 05 2005 Uri Avnery
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A few days ago, two demonstrations were held, just a few dozen kilometers apart. One took place at the Homesh settlement, not far from Jenin. Tens of thousands of settlers and their sympathizers came to demonstrate against the planned evacuation...

Znet Article Avnery: Lebanon and the Avaricious Superpower

Znet Article, March, 08 2005 Uri Avnery
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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 wro...

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