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Znet Article Avnery: The Great Experiment

Znet Article, October, 16 2006 Uri Avnery
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The Great Experiment

Znet Article Avnery: Lunch in Damascus

Znet Article, October, 11 2006 Uri Avnery
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ONCE, WHILE traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver - a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in vain to convince him of the desir...

Znet Article Avnery: Muhammad's Sword

Znet Article, September, 25 2006 Uri Avnery
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Since the days when Roman Emperors threw Christians to the lions, the relations between the emperors and the heads of the church have undergone many changes. Constantine the Great, who became Emperor in the year 306 - exactly 1700 years ago - enco...

Znet Article Avnery: Help! Peacemongers!

Znet Article, September, 20 2006 Uri Avnery
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GUESS WHOSE words these are: "Starting this war was a scandal…It was possible to solve the problem of the missiles in South Lebanon by diplomatic means…The offensive of the last two days of the war, in which 33 soldiers were killed...

Znet Article Avnery: When Napoleon Won at Waterloo

Znet Article, September, 04 2006 Uri Avnery
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NAPOLEON WON the battle of Waterloo. The German Wehrmacht won World War II. The United States won in Vietnam, and the Soviets in Afghanistan. The Zealots won against the Romans, and Ehud Olmert won the Second Lebanon War.  You didn't know that? W...

Znet Article Avnery: The Day After

Znet Article, August, 31 2006 Uri Avnery
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 If it is true that the 33-day war on Lebanon was the culmination of regional developments and that it can hardly be fathomed separate from the brutal Israeli war on Gaza or the faltering American imperial project in Iraq, then it is hardly incons...

Znet Article Avnery: From Mania to Depression

Znet Article, August, 18 2006 Uri Avnery
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THIRTY THREE days of war. The longest of our wars since 1949. On the Israeli side: 154 dead - 117 of them soldiers. 3970 rockets launched against us, 37 civilians dead, more than 422 civilians wounded. On the Lebanese side: about a thousand dead ...

Znet Article Avnery: What The Hell Has Happened To The Army?

Znet Article, August, 13 2006 Uri Avnery
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SO WHAT has happened to the Israeli army? This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, a...

Znet Article Avnery: Junkies of War

Znet Article, August, 09 2006 Uri Avnery
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FOR ME it was a moment of shocking revelation.I was listening to one of the daily speeches of our Prime Minister. He said: "We are a wonderful people!" He said: We have already won this war, it is the greatest victory in the history of our state...

Znet Article Avnery: Is Beirut Burning?

Znet Article, July, 27 2006 Uri Avnery
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Tel Aviv - "IT SEEMS that Nasrallah survived," Israeli newspapers announced, after 23 tons of bombs were dropped on a site in Beirut, where the Hizbullah leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker. An interesting formulation. A few hours after the ...

Znet Article Avnery: The Real Aim

Znet Article, July, 17 2006 Uri Avnery
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THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government. That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really gi...

Znet Article Avnery: Agatha In The Rain

Znet Article, July, 03 2006 Uri Avnery
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"ISRAEL HAS declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the nation! Down with the Nazi-Zionist occupation! Out w...

Znet Article Avnery: A War of Religions? God Forbid!

Znet Article, May, 30 2006 Uri Avnery
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ONE OF our former Chiefs-of-Staff, the late Rafael ("Raful") Eytan, who was not the brightest, once asked a foreign guest: "Are you Jewish or Christian?" "I am an atheist!" the man replied. "Okay, Okay," Raful demanded impatiently, "but a Jewish...

Znet Article Avnery: Blaming the Victims

Znet Article, May, 22 2006 Uri Avnery
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THOSE WHO listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: that Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram. The very fact that these two - the No. 2 man of Hamas and the notorious...

Znet Article Avnery: Voices From Prison

Znet Article, May, 13 2006 Uri Avnery
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PRISON SERVES an important function in the annals of every revolutionary movement. It serves as a college for activists, center for the crystallization of ideas, rallying point for leaders, platform for dialogue between the various factions. For ...

Znet Article Avnery: Israel's New Government

Znet Article, May, 08 2006 Uri Avnery
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SHALL WE start with the good news or the bad news? As confirmed optimists, let's start with the good news. To paraphrase an old Hebrew saying: Don't look at the vessel but at what's not in it. Avigdor Liberman is not in the Israeli government. H...

Znet Article Avnery: Peretz's Trap

Znet Article, April, 29 2006 Uri Avnery
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WHEN YOU see a person walking into a trap, you shout: "Look out!" But when you see a person walking into a trap knowingly, with open eyes, what are you supposed to do? AMIR PERETZ is about to become Minister of Defense and he knows that it is...

Znet Article Avnery: Who's the dog? Who's the tail?

Znet Article, April, 25 2006 Uri Avnery
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Who's the dog? Who's the tail?

Znet Article Avnery: The Day After

Znet Article, April, 21 2006 Uri Avnery
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The airwaves and the headlines are full of talk of a U.S. military strike against Iran. That is as it should be -- the danger of such a reckless move is real, and rising, and we should be talking about it. The Bush administration claims that negot...

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 ...

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