Uri Avnery
Uri Avnery

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  • The Beilin Syndrom

    Yossi Beilin, who resigned last week as chairman of the Meretz party, is Mephisto's opposite: he always wants the good and all too often creates the bad.

    BY Uri Avnery 17 June 2017

  • The Solitary Weeper

    The gruesome lynching of the dying Haftom was totally ugly, totally detestable. It could lead one to despair of Israel — If it were not for one anonymous bystander...

    BY Uri Avnery 16 June 2017

  • The Descenders

    I have campaigned for decades to exchange Zionist theology for a simple Israeli patriotism. Perhaps the time has finally come to do so – after turning Israel into a country we can be proud of again.

    BY Uri Avnery 12 June 2017

  •  “With Friends Like These…” 

    The original Newton discovered the Law of Gravity. Newton Leroy Gingrich has discovered something no less earth-shaking: there is an “invented” people around, referring to the Palestinians. 

    BY Uri Avnery 9 June 2017

  • "Rest has Come to the Weary…"

    We must acknowledge and recognize the consequences of our deeds and repair what can be repaired – without rejecting our past and the songs that express the innocence of our youth.

    BY Uri Avnery 9 June 2017

  • With Friends Like These…

    Lately we are flooded with friends. German Chancellor, Angela Merkel. Or Nicholas Sarkozy. John McCain's mentor, the evangelical pastor John Hagee. Or, for that matter, George Bush.

    BY Uri Avnery 9 June 2017

  • “Rejoice Not…”

    It is natural to be glad when one’s enemy is defeated, and the thirst for revenge is a human trait. But gloating – schadenfreude - is something different altogether. An ugly thing.

    BY Uri Avnery 8 June 2017

  • 'Kill A Hundred Turks And Rest…'

    This is not a joke. It is a lesson in psychology. I was reminded of it when I read Ehud Olmert's statement that more than anything else he was furious about the outburst of joy in Gaza after the attack in Jerusalem, in which eight yeshiva students we

    BY Uri Avnery 8 June 2017

  • Vox Taxi – Vox Dei

    Every Arab learns from early childhood that the Jews must be killed. The Koran preaches murder. Fact, wherever there are Muslims, there is terrorism. Wherever there is terrorism, there are Muslims...

    BY Uri Avnery 8 June 2017

  • "…Namely The State of Israel"

    I am not worried about the existence of the State of Israel. It will exist as long as states exist. The question is: What kind of state will it be? A state of permanent war? Or a state that lives in peace with its neighbors...

    BY Uri Avnery 6 June 2017

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