Uri Avnery's Column
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Angel Face
SEEING HER face on the TV screen, one is struck by her beauty. It is the face of an angel, pure and innocent. • 21/12/13
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(Un)holy River
SO HERE comes John Kerry again, for the umpteenth time (but who is counting?) to make peace between us and the Palestinians. • 07/12/13
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The Debacle
THE GREATEST danger to Israel is not the putative Iranian nuclear bomb. The greatest danger is the stupidity of our leaders. • 30/11/13
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The Battle of the Titans
THIS IS not merely a fight between Israel and the US. Nor is it only a fight between the White House and Congress. It is also a battle between intellectual titans. • 23/11/13
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The Judaization of Israel
ON MY 16th birthday, in 1939, I rushed to the district registration office of the Government of Palestine to change my name officially. • 09/11/13
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The Descenders
THOSE WHO are interested in the history of the Crusades ask themselves: what brought about the Crusaders' downfall? Looking at the remnants of their proud fortresses all over the country, we wonder. • 19/10/13
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Ovadia’s Choice
WHEN RABBI Ovadia Yosef first appeared on the national scene, I heaved a deep sigh of relief.
Here was the man I had dreamed of: a charismatic leader of oriental Jews, a man of peace, a bearer of... • 12/10/13
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Killjoy Was Here
BINYAMIN NETANYAHU aroused my pity. From my 10 years of membership in the Knesset I know how unpleasant it is to speak before an empty hall. • 05/10/13
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The Real Bomb
YEARS AGO I disclosed one of the biggest secrets about Iran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was an agent of the Mossad. • 28/09/13
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A Good War
HERE IS another Jewish joke: A hungry young Jew sees an announcement outside a local circus: anyone who climbs to the top of a 50 meter pole and jumps onto a tarpaulin below will win a prize of a... • 14/09/13
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Oslo Revisited
ISRAEL LOVES anniversaries. The media fill up with revelations and memories of the event commemorated, eye-witnesses recite their stories for the umpteenth time, old photos flood the pages and the... • 07/09/13
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Poor Obama
POOR OBAMA. I pity him.
Right at the start of his meeting with history, he made The Speech in Cairo. A great speech. An uplifting speech. An edifying speech. • 31/08/13
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Cry, Beloved Country
I DIDN’T want to write this article, but I had to.
I love Egypt. I love the Egyptian people. I have spent some of the happiest days of my life there. • 24/08/13
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A new Guinness Record
I DON’T know if the Guinness Book of World Records has a special section for Chutzpah.
If it does not, it should. That's the one competition where we might take home a few gold medals.
The first... • 17/08/13
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Civil War?
IT IS now fashionable to say that “the two-state solution is dead”. Or: “Time for the two-state solution is running out”.
Why dead? How dead? It’s one of those things that need no proof. To say... • 03/08/13
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The Turkey Under the Table
WHEN YOU have a conflict between two parties, the way to solve it is clear: you put them in the same room, let them thrash out their differences and emerge with a reasonable solution acceptable to... • 27/07/13
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A Gift from Europe
ON MY 70th birthday, I received a gift from Yitzhak Rabin: he signed the document recognizing the existence of the Palestinian people, after many decades of denial. He also recognized the... • 20/07/13
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The Grand Dilemma
PERHAPS YOU are facing the same moral dilemma as I am:
What to think about Syria?
What to think about Egypt? • 13/07/13
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A Human Spring
LET ME come back to the story about Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist leader. When asked what he thought about the French Revolution, he famously answered: “It’s too early to say.” • 06/07/13
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Kerry and Chutzpah
IF YOU happen to bump into John Kerry at Ben Gurion Airport, you may wonder whether he is coming or going. He may well be wondering himself. • 29/06/13
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When the Gods Laugh
(A shorter version of this article was published in Haaretz on June 19, the day after the official birthday.) • 22/06/13
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Triumph and Tragedy
NO OPERA by Richard Wagner could have been more dramatic. It looked as if it was directed by a genius. • 15/06/13
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Butterflies in Damascus
DURING THE Spanish civil war of 1936, a news story reported the deaths of 82 Moroccans, 53 Italians, 48 Russians, 34 Germans, 17 Englishmen, 13 Americans and 8 Frenchmen. Also 1 Spaniard. • 08/06/13
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