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Avnery: The Moment of Truth
Znet Article, July, 31 2005
Uri Avnery
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The Moment of Truth
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Avnery: Finger After Finger
Znet Article, March, 01 2005
Uri Avnery
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Seven words uttered by Presiden...
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...
Avnery: Dunam After Dunam
Znet Article, February, 07 2005
Uri Avnery
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What would we...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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, ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 disengagementâ€, 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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
Avnery: Busharon: The Countdown
Znet Article, May, 17 2004
Uri Avnery
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The strange creature named the Busharon is in serious trouble. The front half of this animal - George W. Bush - is having trouble with nude photos. Not only those of the hapless Iraqi prisoners, with the exuberant female soldier pointing at their...
