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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 8 months ago
YEARS AGO I had a friendly discussion with Ariel Sharon.
I told him: “I am first of all an Israeli. After that I am a Jew.”
He responded heatedly: “I am first of all a Jew, and only after that an Israeli!”
That […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU is a perfect diplomat, a clever politician, a talented leader of the army.
Lately, another jewel has been added to his crown: he is also a gifted story-teller.
He has provided an […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
ONE CAN look at events in Gaza through the left or through the right eye. One can condemn them as inhuman, cruel and mistaken, or justify them as necessary and unavoidable.
But there is one adjective that is […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
The State of Israel has no oil wells. It has no gold mines. What has it got? It has the ownership of the remembrance of the Holocaust.
That is worth a lot. Everyone who wants to clean himself from the stain […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 9 months ago
IN THE late 1980s, my secretary told me that the Deputy Chief of Staff wanted to see me.
That was rather surprising. The army command was not on friendly terms with my paper, Haolam Hazeh. For dozens of years, […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
PRINCE WILLIAM, Duke of Cambridge, second in line to the British throne, visited Israel this week.
He seems a likable person. He looked like a prince should look, did all the right things, said all the right […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
“AS LONG as in the heart, within, a Jewish soul is yearning…” thus starts the official translation of Israel’s national anthem.
Actually, the Hebrew original says “the soul of a Jew”, but the translator p […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
After commenting on most of the episodes on the first Israeli Prime Ministers in Raviv Drucker’s TV series “The Captains”, I must come back to the one whose episode I have not yet covered: Yitzhak Rabin.
Let me […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
IT’S FRIGHTENING. Unprincipled psychologists, in the service of a malignant regime, use sophisticated techniques in order to control the mind of a person from afar.
The term “brainwashing” was born in 1950. It […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 10 months ago
OH, GAZA. Strong as death is love.
I loved Gaza. That is a play on words. The Biblical Song of Songs says that love is strong as death. Strong in Hebrew is Aza. Aza is also the Hebrew name of Gaza. […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago
WE ALL know the picture from the books and the movies: a gambler sits at the roulette table in a casino. He has luck. A lot of luck.
In front of the gambler, the pile of chips is growing. Higher and higher. […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago
ON BLOODY MONDAY this week, when the number of Palestinian killed and wounded was rising by the hour, I asked myself: what would I have done if I had been a youngster of 15 in the Gaza Strip?
My answer was, […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago
“IF YOU want to understand the policy of a nation, look at the map!” Napoleon is supposed to have said.
It is good advice.
If you are living in Israel, these days, you get the impression that the huge State […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 11 months ago
Ben-Gurion said about her: “The only thing Golda knows how to do is to hate!”
Golda Meir did not hate me. That would be an understatement. She detested me.
The way I speak, the way I dress, the way I look. […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 5 years, 12 months ago
ON THE fifth day of the six-day war in 1967, I published an open letter to the Prime Minister, Levy Eshkol. The Israeli army had just conquered the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, and I proposed that […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 6 years ago
WRITE DOWN: I, Uri Avnery, soldier number 44410 of the Israel army, hereby dissociate myself from the army sharpshooters who murder unarmed demonstrators along the Gaza Strip, and from their commanders, who give […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 6 years ago
A FRIEND from overseas sent me the recording of a song. An Arab song, with a soft Arab melody, sung by an Arab girls’ choir, accompanied by a flute.
It goes like this:
Ahed
You are the promise and the […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 6 years ago
I was about to write an article about Pesach eve’ when I remembered that I wrote exactly the same article six years ago. So I am sending the old article again – I just have nothing to add.
I AM writing this o […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 6 years, 1 month ago
THE CLOSER Mahmoud Abbas gets to the end of his reign, the more extreme his language becomes.
Recently he spoke about Donald Trump and uttered the words “May your house be destroyed”. In Arabic, this is a […]
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Uri Avnery wrote a new post 6 years, 1 month ago
TOWARDS THE END of 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi ally followed with its own declaration of war, and so did all its satellites.
The joke tells about the […]
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