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Znet Article Avnery: Finger After Finger

Znet Article, March, 01 2005 Uri Avnery
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Seven words uttered by Presiden...

Znet Article Avnery: Beware of the Dog!

Znet Article, February, 21 2005 Uri Avnery
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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 i...

Znet Article Avnery: Dunam After Dunam

Znet Article, February, 07 2005 Uri Avnery
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What would we...

Znet Article Avnery: The Stalemate

Znet Article, January, 31 2005 Uri Avnery
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Perhaps the second intifada has come to an end. Perhaps the cease-fire in the Gaza Strip will develop into a general, mutual cease-fire.   For me, the words “cease fire” have an extra resonance. When I was a soldier in the 1948 w...

Znet Article Avnery: A Wreath for Blair

Znet Article, December, 27 2004 Uri Avnery
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"The curious incident is the barking of the dog," Sherlock Holmes remarked. "But the dog did not bark!" exclaimed Dr. Watson. "That is the curious incident!" This week's curious incident concerns the wreath of Tony Blair. The wreath that he ...

Znet Article Avnery: The Mountain and the Mouse

Znet Article, December, 23 2004 Uri Avnery
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Ariel Sharon's speech at the "Herzliya Conference", an annual gathering of Israel's financial, political and academic aristocracy, proved again his wondrous ability to conjure up an imaginary world and divert attention away from the real one. Like...

Znet Article Avnery: Bush and Sharon after Arafat

Znet Article, November, 24 2004 Uri Avnery
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George W. Bush is a product of the Wild West myth. He sees himself as the fast-drawing sheriff who kills the bad guys and maintains order in town. But in fact he is much more like another stock figure of the Westerns: the top-hatted vendor of ...

Znet Article Avnery: Missing Arafat

Znet Article, November, 18 2004 Uri Avnery
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Uri Avnery has accomplished quite a lot in his 81 years. He fought for the pre-state underground group Lehi, then in the War of Independence in the "Samson's Foxes" unit, he wrote the most important real-time books about that war ("In the Fields o...

Znet Article Avnery: Rejoice not...

Znet Article, November, 15 2004 Uri Avnery
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"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, ...

Znet Article Avnery: Yasser Arafat

Znet Article, November, 08 2004 Uri Avnery
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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 ...

Znet Article Avnery: God Wills It!

Znet Article, November, 06 2004 Uri Avnery
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Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a "crime against humanity". It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a m...

Znet Article Avnery: On the Road to Civil War

Znet Article, October, 25 2004 Uri Avnery
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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. Th...

Znet Article Avnery: Don't Believe a Word

Znet Article, October, 23 2004 Uri Avnery
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When Ariel Sharon announced his plan for “unilateral disengagement”, the media reported that the Peace Now movement was preparing a big public campaign in support. The Prime Minister’s office asked them to desist, fearing t...

Znet Article Avnery: Sharon's Thinking

Znet Article, October, 17 2004 Uri Avnery
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By now, everybody has had a go at analyzing the interview with Dov ("Dubby") Weisglass, Ariel Sharon's most intimate confidant. But there is precious little to analyze. His statement is crystal clear: the "redeployment plan" was designed to "freez...

Znet Article Avnery: "God Wills It!"

Znet Article, September, 13 2004 Uri Avnery
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Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a "crime against humanity". It does not mention that they were set up on the land reserves of a ...

Znet Article Avnery: A Very Special Kind of War

Znet Article, August, 24 2004 Uri Avnery
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"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 ...

Znet Article Avnery: Irreversible Mental Damage

Znet Article, June, 22 2004 Uri Avnery
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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 Natio...

Znet Article Avnery: The Nightmare Comes True

Znet Article, June, 15 2004 Uri Avnery
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I thought it was terrible. I was wrong. It is far, far worse! - These words sum up my feelings at that moment. I was standing on a hill overlooking the infamous Kalandia checkpoint. Below me was a narrow road, packed with Palestinians in the bla...

Znet Article Avnery: The Gaza Disengagement Sham

Znet Article, June, 08 2004 Uri Avnery
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Perhaps Abe Lincoln was right that you can't fool all the people all the time, but a lot of people can surely be fooled for a long, long time. Just look at Ariel Sharon. From the start, the "Disengagement Plan" was an exercise in deceit. But the ...

Znet Article Avnery: Sharon's Method

Znet Article, May, 24 2004 Uri Avnery
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The immense might of the Israeli army, assembled from all over the country, has attacked a small Palestinian township on the margin of the destitute Gaza Strip. Palestinians, both fighters and civilians, are being killed by the dozen, homes are be...

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