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LIKE THIEVES IN THE NIGHT
A government
Which sends
Settlers and police
In the middle
Of the night
To take over
Palestinian homes
In East Jerusalem
Will not find
Peace, even
In Saudi Arabia. • More...

Ah, If I Were 25
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New year, new leaf?
In the Cairo talks
It is possible
To turn over
A new leaf:

End the siege.
Start building
The Port of Gaza.

Remove the threat of
A new round of fighting.

Open a window of hope
For Gaza and
The... • More...

Gaza border residents call for a political solution - avert a new Gaza war
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Scotland on the Euphrates
TWO COUNTRIES competed this week for first place in news programs all over the world: Scotland and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. • More...

UNSUSTAINABLE
A government which
Happily avoids
Any chance for peace
Has no choice but
Inflating military budgets
To a level which
The Israeli society
Cannot sustain! • More...

Hannibal ad Portas
THE LAST war has come to an end, the next war has not yet started, so let's use the time to speak of many things.

Of Hannibal, for example. • More...

OCCUPIED
Palestinians demonstrating
In East Jerusalem
Are not
A police problem.

Detentions at night
And brutal oppression
Will not stop
An independence struggle.

East Jerusalem is
An... • More...

God Wills It!
FOR SIX decades my friends and I have warned our people: if we don't make peace with the nationalist Arab forces, we shall be faced with Islamic Arab forces.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will... • More...

New Horizon
A week after
The Gaza ceasefire:
Prelude to
The next war.

A massive land robbery
For settlement construction -
That is the horizon
To which
Netanyahu is looking. • More...

Demonstration to support imprisoned CO's Udi Segal and Uriel Ferera
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The War for Nothing
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At Long Last
After a lot of bloodshed,
Netanyahu at long last
Wriggled out of
A useless war
Which he should never
Have started
To begin with. • More...

Day of Commemoration for all those who perished in the war
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Son of Death
THE WAR was over. Families returned to their kibbutzim near Gaza. Kindergartens opened up again. A ceasefire was in force and extended again and again. Obviously, both sides were exhausted.

And... • More...

TRUE
“When Gazans
Are suffocating,
We in Israel
Cannot breathe freely!”

So said
David Grossman
At a rally
Last week.

How true! • More...

The Peace Bus from Jerusalem to the Gaza Border - 5th Journey!
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Avnery's articles as pdf (English)
a compilation of some 200 - from 2009 onwards, and some earlier ones.

Eyeless in Gaza
THE TROUBLE with war is that it has two sides.

Everything would be so much easier if war had only one side. Ours, of course. • More...

AND NOW:
LIFT
THE BLOCKADE!

MOVE FROM
THE CEASE-FIRE
TO A
PERMANENT
AGREEMENT! • More...

Metro Gaza
TEL AVIV has no metro. It has been discussed for decades. Successive mayors have promised it. Alas, still no metro. • More...

Gaza Port
In 2005 Israel
Agreed to start work
On constructing
The Port of Gaza.

Security in the port
Was to be defined
By Israel, the US and
The Palestinian Authority.

Now it is time
To implement
That... • More...

The Peace Bus from Jerusalem to the Gaza Border continues - 4th Journey!
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Weekend protests against the Gaza War, Aug. 1-2, 2014
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Meeting in a Tunnel
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PARTNERS
The only way to
“Manage the conflict”
Is to solve it.

The partners for war,
Should also become
Partners for peace. • More...

Once And For All!
IN THIS war, both sides have the same aim: to put an end to the situation that existed before it started.

Once And For All! • More...

No more pressure cooker
What to do when
The bloodshed is over?

To continue the siege
Until an even
More terrible war?

Only a flourishing Gaza,
Part of sovereign Palestine,
Can provide us with
A quiet border. • More...

Who is Winning?
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New hope for the future
It is not enough
To reach a cease-fire
And keep intact
An intolerable situation -

The siege of Gaza
Must be lifted
And Inhabitants of Gaza
Must get free access
To the outside world
And a new hope... • More...