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Netanyahu’s controversial speech to US Congress
  Uri Avnery   Winston Churchill famously said that democracy is the worst political system, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. Anyone involved with political life knows that that is British understatement. Churchill also said ...
Paris and Copenhagen outrages were not anti-Semitism
  Uri Avnery     Anti-Semitism is on the rise. All over Europe it is raising its ugly head. Jews are in danger everywhere. They must make haste and come home to Israel before it is too late. True? Untrue? Nonsense! Practically all the alarming incidents ...
Sheldon Adelson: The real ruler of Israel
  Uri Avnery     Who is the ruler of Israel? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of course. Wrong. The real ruler of Israel is one Sheldon Adelson, 81, American Jew, Casino king, who was rated as the world’s tenth richest person, worth 37.2 billion ...
In Israeli elections, better bottles than battles
  Uri Avnery     Everyone knows what the Israeli elections are about. The choice is stark: on the one side, the dream of a Greater Israel “from the sea to the river”, which would in practice be an apartheid state; on the other ...
Split of Shas may aid the Israeli peace movement
  Uri Avnery     The Shas party has split into two. Opinion polls show that both parts are hovering around the 3.12 percent threshold which is now necessary for entering the Knesset, after the minimum was raised by the last Knesset. Many people ...
Israel faces increasing international isolation
  Uri Avnery     Almost one thousand Israeli personalities have already signed an appeal to European parliaments for their governments to recognize the State of Palestine. I am honored to be among the signatories, which include former ministers and members of the Knesset, ...
Are Netanyahu’s days numbered?
  Uri Avnery     On Monday, the 19th Knesset voted to dissolve itself, less than two years after its election. For many of its members it was a sad day, a kind of political hara-kiri. They have no chance of re-election. Some of ...
Israelis call for a national plebiscite
  Uri Avnery     Israelis are fed up with Benjamin Netanyahu. They are fed up with the government. They are fed up with all political parties. They are fed up with themselves. They are fed up. That is the reason for the disintegration ...
The ‘City of Peace’ is in flames — again
  Uri Avnery     IN ITS long and checkered history, Jerusalem has been occupied by dozens of conquerors. Babylonians and Persians, Greeks and Romans, Mamluks and Turks, Britons and Jordanians – to mention just a few. The latest occupier is Israel, which conquered and ...
An Intifada of individuals
  Uri Avnery     Kafr Kanna is an Arab village near Nazareth where the Israeli police are turning stones into blood. On the recent fateful day, the police were confronting a group of young Arabs protesting against Israeli efforts to change the status ...
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