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Znet Article Avnery: The Donkey of the Messiah

Znet Article, May, 11 2013 Uri Avnery
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“THE TWO-STATE solution is dead!” This mantra has been repeated so often lately, by so many authoritative commentators, that it must be true

Znet Article Avnery: The Third Intifada?

Znet Article, March, 11 2013 Uri Avnery
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Is this the third intifada?

Znet Article Avnery: A Loss for Netanyahu

Znet Article, January, 26 2013 Uri Avnery
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It was not a historic turning moment, like the takeover of Menachem Begin in 1977, after two generations of Labor Party rule. But it was a significant change

Znet Article Avnery: A Marriage of Morons: Romney and Netanyahu

Znet Article, September, 28 2012 Uri Avnery
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In his latest seizure of wisdom, Romney did not only disclose that 47% of Americans are parasites, but also that “the Palestinians” want to destroy Israel

Znet Article Avnery: Hurrah for Egypt!

Znet Article, February, 01 2012 Uri Avnery
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A revolution reflects the character of its people

Znet Article Avnery: Israel Will Not Attack Iran. Period.

Znet Article, November, 09 2011 Uri Avnery
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The talk about the war serves many purposes, including domestic, political ones

Znet Article Avnery: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”

Znet Article, August, 05 2011 Uri Avnery
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Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum

Znet Article Avnery: On The Road To Canossa

Znet Article, April, 01 2010 Uri Avnery
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In January 1077, King Henry IV walked to Canossa. He crossed the snow-covered Alps barefoot, wearing a penitent monk’s hair shirt, and reached the North-Italian fortress in which the Vicar of God had found refuge.

Znet Article Avnery: The Harlot’s Grave

Znet Article, March, 09 2010 Uri Avnery
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Some weeks ago, Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turk who tried to kill Pope John Paul II in Rome, was released after serving 28 years in prison.

Znet Article Avnery: White Lie

Znet Article, February, 28 2010 Uri Avnery
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This coming Wednesday, the Supreme Court of Israel will consider an application by a group of Israeli citizens to compel the Interior Ministry to register them as belonging to the “Israeli nation”.

Znet Article Avnery: Dubious In Dubai

Znet Article, February, 22 2010 Uri Avnery
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From time to time I ask myself: what would happen if the world’s governments decided to abolish all their spy agencies simultaneously?

Znet Article Avnery: A Four-Letter Word

Znet Article, February, 08 2010 Uri Avnery
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Many important struggles in Israel are calling out to people of conscience...

Znet Article Avnery: "Kill Another Turk…"

Znet Article, January, 17 2010 Uri Avnery
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Almost every Jew knows the sentence “Kill a Turk and rest.” The whole story goes like this: In Czarist Russia, a Jewish boy is called up for the war against the Turks.

Znet Article Avnery: The Quiet American

Znet Article, January, 10 2010 Uri Avnery
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The quiet American was the hero of Graham Greene’s novel about the first Vietnam War, the one fought by the French.

Znet Article Avnery: The Iron Wall

Znet Article, January, 03 2010 Uri Avnery
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Something odd, almost bizarre, is going on in Egypt these days. About 1400 activists from all over the world gathered there on their way to the Gaza Strip. On the anniversary of the “Cast Lead” War, they intended to participate in a non-violen...

Znet Article Avnery: Cast Lead 2

Znet Article, December, 29 2009 Uri Avnery
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Did we win? Tomorrow marks the first anniversary of the Gaza War, alias Operation Cast Lead, and this question fills the public space.

Znet Article Avnery: Oybama

Znet Article, December, 20 2009 Uri Avnery
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I listened to his Nobel Prize acceptance speech. My first impression was that it was almost impertinent: to come to a peace ceremony and there to justify war. But when I read it for the second and then a third time, I found some undeniable truths....

Znet Article Avnery: Spot The Difference

Znet Article, December, 13 2009 Uri Avnery
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THE STATE that was respected and feared for 350 years as Prussia started with another name: Mark Brandenburg. (Mark: march, border area). This territory in the North-East of Germany was wrested from its Slavic inhabitants and was initially outside...

Znet Article Avnery: Federation? Why Not?

Znet Article, November, 23 2009 Uri Avnery
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These days mark the 5th anniversary of the murder of Yasser Arafat, and bring back to me our last conversation in his Ramallah compound, a few weeks before his death. It was he who brought up the idea of a threefold federation – Israel, Palestin...

Znet Article Avnery: A Line In The Sand

Znet Article, November, 09 2009 Uri Avnery
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Mahmoud Abbas is fed up. The day before yesterday he withdrew his candidacy for the coming presidential election in the Palestinian Authority.

Znet Article Avnery: A Tsunami Called Goldstone

Znet Article, October, 27 2009 Uri Avnery
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According to a Chinese saying, if someone in the street tells you that you are drunk, you can laugh. If a second person tells you that you are drunk, start to think about it. If a third one tells you the same, go home and sleep it off.

Znet Article Avnery: The Bogie Horror Show

Znet Article, August, 24 2009 Uri Avnery
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On the eve of the last elections, Binyamin Netanyahu made an all-out effort, using kosher and not-so-kosher means, to remove Feiglin from the Likud's list of candidates. He was determined to avoid the Likud being presented as an extreme-Right part...

Znet Article Avnery: When He Says Yes – What Does He Mean?

Znet Article, June, 20 2009 Uri Avnery
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The decisive point at this moment is, of course, the matter of the settlements. Will Obama insist on a total freeze of all building activity or not?

Znet Article Avnery: A Fateful Sentence: Israel's Most Revolting Law?

Znet Article, March, 24 2009 Uri Avnery
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The most important sentence written in Israel this week was lost in the general tumult of exciting events.

Znet Article Avnery: Israel Lobby Humiliates Obama Administration

Znet Article, March, 16 2009 Uri Avnery
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Returning home from a very short visit to London, I found the country in the grip of uncontrollable emotions.

Znet Article Avnery: Coalition Theory

Znet Article, February, 25 2009 Uri Avnery
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We don’t have a Julius Caesar. But we do have an Avigdor Liberman. When he announced his support the other day for the setting up of a government headed by Binyamin Netanyahu, that was the crossing of his Rubicon.

Znet Article Avnery: Livni's Bitter Options

Znet Article, February, 17 2009 Uri Avnery
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Tantalus is punished by the Gods for reasons that are not entirely clear. He is hungry and thirsty, but the water in which he stands recedes when he bends down to drink from it and the fruit above his head continually evades his hand.

Znet Article Avnery: On The Wrong Side

Znet Article, January, 25 2009 Uri Avnery
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Of All the beautiful phrases in Barack Obama's inauguration speech, these are the words that stuck in my mind: “You are on the wrong side of history.”

Znet Article Avnery: Israel Is Losing This War

Znet Article, January, 13 2009 Uri Avnery
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War - every war - is the realm of lies. Whether called propaganda or psychological warfare, everybody accepts that it is right to lie for one's country. Anyone who speaks the truth runs the risk of being branded a traitor.

Znet Article Avnery: Molten Lead

Znet Article, January, 04 2009 Uri Avnery
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As a matter of fact, the cease-fire did not collapse, because there was no real cease-fire to start with. The main requirement for any cease-fire in the Gaza Strip must be the opening of the border crossings.

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