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Avnery: Three Generals, One Martyr
Znet Article, March, 30 2004
Uri Avnery
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Five hundred black- and white-bearded Hamas members were sitting opposite me. Venerable sheikhs and young people. On the side, some rows were occupied by women. I was standing o...
Avnery: Bravo, Amigos!
Znet Article, March, 25 2004
Uri Avnery
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A Prime Minister is waging war. The great majority of the people oppose the war. The majority vote for the Prime Minister. Absurd? Well, that was the situation in Spain. It also applies, more or less, in Israel. But here the similarity ends. The...
Avnery: The Ghetto Inside
Znet Article, March, 05 2004
Uri Avnery
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"It is easier to get the Jews out of the ghetto than to get the ghetto out of the Jews!" - this dictum of the early Zionists is now assuming a new meaning. Israel is cutting itself off from the world and enclosing itself in a ghetto, and not only ...
Avnery: The Dancing Bear
Znet Article, February, 25 2004
Uri Avnery
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"And so it will continue, until Sharon gets tired of this act, too. Then he will invent a new one. After all, the main thing is for the bear to keep on dancing." Once upon a time there was a popular kind of street show: a bear would dance for th...
Avnery: Yes, Minister
Znet Article, February, 18 2004
Uri Avnery
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In one of the episodes of the outstanding British TV series “Yes, Minister!†the Permanent Undersecretary, Sir Humphrey, teaches his minister how to use Commissions of Inquiry: Take an honorable retired judge, a doddering old fool...
Avnery: Anti-Semitism Q & A
Znet Article, January, 20 2004
Uri Avnery
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A Hungarian Joke: During the June 1967 war, a Hungarian meets his friend. "Why do you look so happy?" he asks. "I heard that the Israelis shot down six Soviet-made MiGs today," his friend replies. The next day, the friend looks even more jubilan...
Avnery: Decoding Sharon's Speech
Znet Article, December, 24 2003
Uri Avnery
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Decoding Sharon's Speech
Avnery: Balloons
Znet Article, December, 18 2003
Uri Avnery
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is at it again, and again it is working. He is launching colorful balloons, and the whole world is looking on with rapture and wonderment. Ariel Sharon needs to divert attention. His popularity has dropped in recent opinion polls. The Geneva ini...
Avnery: Cancer Cells
Znet Article, November, 04 2003
Uri Avnery
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In the Six-Day War, hundreds of Israeli soldiers were murdered while storming the Sinai desert, the West Bank and the Golan heights. In the Yom-Kippur War, more than 2000 Israeli soldiers were murdered in the defense of the conquered territories....
Avnery: A Disaster Foretold
Znet Article, September, 16 2003
Uri Avnery
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So now it is official: the government of Israel has decided to assassinate Yasser Arafat. Not any more to "exile". Not any more to "expel or kill". Simply to "remove". Of course, the intention is not to remove him to another country. Nobody seri...
Avnery: Violence is the Symptom
Znet Article, September, 15 2003
Uri Avnery
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Jon Elmer, FromOccupiedPalestine.org: There is an active debate in Israeli society, in government and in the media about murdering Yasser Arafat. Have you ever heard of a discussion of assassinating the elected leader of another country taking pla...
Avnery: Hero in War and Peace
Znet Article, August, 18 2003
Uri Avnery
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Hero in War and Peace
Avnery: The Best Show in Town
Znet Article, June, 23 2003
Uri Avnery
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The Best Show in Town
Avnery: To Aqaba and Back
Znet Article, June, 14 2003
Uri Avnery
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To Aqaba and Back
Avnery: The Children's Teeth
Znet Article, May, 18 2003
Uri Avnery
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The Children's Teeth
Avnery: At Midnight, a Knock on the Door
Znet Article, April, 20 2003
Uri Avnery
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It was an almost unbelievable news story: in order to trim the national budget, the Ministry of Education had decided to dismiss hundreds of teachers. A private company got the job of delivering the bitter news to the dism...
Avnery: War Crimes and Ariel Sharon: It's OK to Eat Belgian Cholocate
Znet Article, February, 28 2003
Uri Avnery
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"Don't eat Belgian chocolate," the Israel consul in Florida ordered the large Jewish community there. In Israel, anti-Belgian curses reached an ear-splitting new crescendo. Miserable Belgium! Mad Belgium! Megalomaniac Belgium! And again and agai...
Avnery: It's Ok To Eat Belgian Chocalates
Znet Article, February, 23 2003
Uri Avnery
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"Don't eat Belgian chocolate," the Israeli consul in Florida ordered the large Jewish community there. In Israel, anti-Belgian curses reached an ear-splitting new crescendo. Miserable Belgium! Mad Belgium! Megalomaniac Belgium! And again and agai...
Avnery: Why Does the Leopard Hide his Spots?
Znet Article, December, 01 2002
Uri Avnery
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I loath Binyamin Netanyahu, and therefore I hoped that he would be elected leader of the Likud. I am sorry that ...
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...
