Uri Avnery

Trumpism is the outcry of the great masses of Americans who are economically dislocated, spiritually disoriented, generally miserable, full of hate, distrust and despair.

A contemporary remembers Shimon Peres as a man who 'was a politician from childhood on — a real politician, a complete politician'

If there's a politician who is the exact opposite of Merkel, it would be Netanyahu. Merkel is a moral heroine, Netanyahu is a moral coward

Israel keeps up the conflict, because it needs the conflict for its very existence. Only the sense of unity created by the conflict can prevent one.

The Brexit is a protest vote, that has little to do with the subject of the referendum.

People change. Even politicians. Perhaps Barak has had time to ponder on his experience and learned from his mistakes

Position after position is taken over by the far-far right, which is ruling Israel now. Slowly. Very, very slowly.

Developments in Israel resemble processes in many other countries, which have nothing to do with our specific problems.

The discrimination against the Palestinians in practically all spheres of life can be compared to the treatment of the Jews in the first phase of Nazi Germany.

One could have hoped that after the Holocaust, they would just disappear. But now they are here again, in several guises and disguises