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Avnery: One Small Olive
Znet Article, November, 05 2002
Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...
Avnery: One Small Olive
Znet Article, November, 05 2002
Uri Avnery
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Why has the Sharon-Ben-Eliezer-Peres government collapsed? Because of a small olive. It started like a children's tale: Once upon a time there was a small olive in a Palestinian village. It grew and ripened on a branch of an old tree in a grove o...
Avnery: Naboth Had A Vineyard
Znet Article, October, 26 2002
Uri Avnery
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Had they been there last Saturday at sunset, most Israelis would not have believed their eyes.In the middle of Havarah, a small village south of Nablus, 63 Israelis, men and women, young and old, were standing together with dozens of Palestinian v...
Avnery: Chain Of Command
Znet Article, October, 21 2002
Uri Avnery
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There is little controversy about the facts: last Thursday, in an IDF action in Rafah, at least eight Palestinians were killed (the number will probably climb, since some of the wounded were severely hurt). Five of those killed were woman and chil...
Avnery: Israel: The Jewish Demographic State?
Znet Article, October, 11 2002
Uri Avnery
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It sounds like a bad joke, but it really happened: A rabbi went from Israel to Peru, converted a group of Native Americans to Judaism, brought them to this country and put them in a settlement, on land taken away from its Palestinian owners. Ther...
Avnery: War Now
Znet Article, September, 11 2002
Uri Avnery
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Slowly, President Bush's war plan against Iraq is emerging from the thick fog. At first it looked like a collection of hazy slogans, but gradually it is becoming clear that it has definite - if hidden - aims. The plan is unconnected to the famou...
Avnery: Letter to a Pilot
Znet Article, August, 24 2002
Uri Avnery
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I have read the interview given by your commander, Major General Dan Halutz, and, like many others in Israel and abroad, I was shocked. On July 23, one of your comrades (or perhaps you yourself?) dropped a one-ton bomb on a house in a dense resid...
Avnery: The Army has a State
Znet Article, July, 23 2002
Uri Avnery
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One of the rich men in the Jewish shtetl died. Jewish tradition demanded that somebody eulogize the deceased, dwelling only on his virtues. But nobody in town was ready to say a good word about this hated person. At last a merciful Jew volunteered...
Avnery: A Maddened Cow
Znet Article, July, 06 2002
Uri Avnery
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Israel is the only state in the world that has a population of 200%. And that's a fact. Public opinion polls show that it has two simultaneous majorities. One is peace- loving, the other supports extreme nationalism. At the present time, it looks...
Avnery: Sharon's war plans: The Great Reformer?
Znet Article, May, 23 2002
Uri Avnery
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When the inhabitants of Bethlehem came out of their homes, after the long weeks during which Israeli soldiers shot at everything in town that moved, they discovered that the landscape had changed. While they were imprisoned in their homes, the arm...
Avnery: The Real Aim
Znet Article, April, 27 2002
Uri Avnery
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The real aim of “Operation Defensive Shield†was not to “destroy the infrastructure of terrorismâ€. This was merely a good slogan for uniting the people of Israel, who are angry and afraid after the suicide bombings....
Avnery: Something Stinks
Znet Article, April, 22 2002
Uri Avnery
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There is full agreement between all those who were in the Jenin refugee camp on only one thing. A week after the end of the fighting, foreign journalists and IDF soldiers, UN representatives and hired hacks in the Israeli media, members of the wel...
Avnery: In Jenin I founded...
Znet Article, April, 14 2002
Uri Avnery
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105 years ago, the day after the First Zionist Congress in Basel, Theodor Herzl, wrote in his diary: “ In Basel I founded the State of the Jews.†This week, Ariel Sharon should note in his diary: “In Jenin I founded the Sta...
Avnery: The Murder Of Arafat
Znet Article, April, 01 2002
Uri Avnery
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If Ariel Sharon succeeds in murdering Yasser Arafat, as he wants to, the Palestinian leader will remain in the collective memory of his people, and the whole Arab world, like Moses in Jewish memory. Moses rebelled against Egyptian oppression, led...
Avnery: How To Torpedo The Saudis
Znet Article, March, 07 2002
Uri Avnery
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If, in May 1967, an Arab prince had proposed that the whole Arab world would recognize Israel and establish normal relations with it, in return for Israel's recognition of the Green Line border, we would have believed that the days of the Messiah ...
Avnery: Something is Moving
Znet Article, February, 18 2002
Uri Avnery
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I once saw in a Western a Red Indian (or should I say a Native American?) putting his ear to the ground and hearing a train tens of miles away. In the course of the years I have tried to imitate that Indian. I try to hear changes in the public mo...
Avnery: The Great Game
Znet Article, February, 09 2002
Uri Avnery
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Some weeks ago, something curious happened: Israel discovered that Iran is the Great Satan. It happened quite suddenly. There was no prior sensational news, no new discovery. As if by the order of a drill-sergeant, the whole Israeli phalanx change...
Avnery: The Ships on the Way
Znet Article, January, 12 2002
Uri Avnery
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The chiefs of the three big parties in Israel - the Likud, the Labor Party and the army - were sitting on the stage. They were frustrated. They knew already that they had not succeeded in selling the great show that they had prepared with so much ...
