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Who? Me?!
TODAY, THE war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a "gang" and "terrorist organization", as the military commanders like to describe... • 09/08/06
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Junkies of War
FOR ME it was a moment of shocking revelation.
I was listening to one of the daily speeches of our Prime Minister. He said: "We are a wonderful people!" He said: We have already won this war, it... • 05/08/06
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In the Gunsight: Syria! or: A Nice Little War
IT IS the old story about the losing gambler: he cannot stop. He continues to play, in order to win his losses back. He continues to lose and continues to gamble, until he has lost everything: his... • 29/07/06
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Q & A: The 15th Day
- Who is winning this war?
On the 15th day of the war, Hizbullah is functioning and fighting. That by itself will go down in the annals of the Arab peoples as a shining victory.
When a... • 26/07/06
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Is Beirut Burning?
"IT SEEMS that Nasrallah survived," Israeli newspapers announced, after 23 tons of bombs were dropped on a site in Beirut, where the Hizbullah leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker.
An... • 22/07/06
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"Stop that shit!"
A WOMAN, an immigrant from Russia, throws herself on the ground in total despair in front of her home that has been hit by a missile, crying in broken Hebrew: "My son! My son!" believing him dead... • 18/07/06
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כל הארץ חזית
המטרה האמיתית היא לשנות את המשטר בלבנון ולכונן בה ממשלה התלויה בישראל.
זאת הייתה גם מטרת הפלישה של אריאל שרון ללבנון ב-1982. היא נכשלה. אבל שרון ותלמידיו בצמרת הצבאית והמדינית לא נטשו אותה מעולם... • 15/07/06
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The Real Aim
THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.
That was the aim of Ariel Sharon's invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the... • 15/07/06
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A One-sided War
THAT'S IT. Tomorrow the World Cup games come to an end. We can congratulate the new champions and wish them arrivederci or au revoir, as the case may be. • 08/07/06
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Agatha In The Rain
"ISRAEL HAS declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the... • 01/07/06
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Mon Dieu, Mondial! (Balls instead of Bullets)
IF PRESIDENT Bush wanted to deal with Iran by "bombing them back into the stone age", (as an American general once put it during the Vietnam War), now would be the time. With everybody riveted to... • 24/06/06
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Crying Stones (A Lesson in Ethnic Cleansing)
"I COLLECTED with my bare hands the body parts of my two little sons. What mother must do that? One shell of the aggressors blew them apart. Within a second, my life was destroyed forever." The... • 17/06/06
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Oh, What A Wonderful Plan!
NINE MONTHS before he invaded Lebanon, Ariel Sharon let me in on his grand design for solving all the problems of this region. It was mind-boggling. He did not ask me to keep it secret, just not... • 10/06/06
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Gush Shalom breaking the ice towards Hamas
"We firmly oppose Olmert's attempt to expel you from Jerusalem!" said former Knesset Member Uri Avnery, a leading member of Gush Shalom (the Israeli Peace Bloc), during a meeting with Sheikh... • 31/05/06
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Missed Opportunities (Partial List)
"THE PALESTINIANS never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity!" - this phrase, coined by Abba Eban, has become a by-word. It also illustrates a wise Talmudic saying: "He who finds fault in... • 27/05/06
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WHO'S GUILTY? THE VICTIM, OF COURSE
THOSE WHO listened to the radio news last Saturday heard a stunning report: that Muhammad Abu-Ter and Uri Avnery had barricaded themselves together in a private home in a-Ram.
The very fact that... • 20/05/06
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Voices from Prison
PRISON SERVES an important function in the annals of every revolutionary movement. It serves as a college for activists, center for the crystallization of ideas, rallying point for leaders... • 13/05/06
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300 Kisses
SHALL WE start with the good news or the bad news? As confirmed optimists, let's start with the good news.
To paraphrase an old Hebrew saying: Don't look at the vessel but at what's not in it... • 06/05/06
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