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The Oslo Accords revisited
Uri Avnery Israel loves anniversaries. The media fill up with revelations and memories of the event commemorated, eyewitnesses recite their stories for the umpteenth time, old photos flood the pages and the TV screens. In the coming days, two main ...
A new Guinness record
Uri Avnery 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 one ...
A federation - why not?
Uri Avnery In the spring of 1949, just after the armistice agreements at the end of the War of Independence, a small group met to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside the new State of Israel, with an ...
Removing the settlers: A civil war?
URI AVNERY    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 it is enough. ...
Settlement boycott: A gift from Europe
Uri Avnery   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 Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) as its representative. I ...
A worldwide Human Spring
Uri Avnery When asked what he thought about the French Revolution, Zhou Enlai, the Chinese Communist leader, famously answered: “It’s too early to say.” This was considered a typical piece of ancient Chinese wisdom – until somebody pointed out that Zhou ...
John Kerry and chutzpah
Uri Avnery 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. For many weeks now he has been devoting most of his precious ...
Shimon Peres: A life like Sisyphus
Uri Avnery IF the life of Shimon Peres was a play, it would be difficult to classify. A tragedy? A comedy? A tragicomedy? For 60 years he looked like Sisyphus, who was condemned to roll an immense boulder up a hill, ...
The 1967 Arab-Israeli War: Triumph and tragedy
Uri Avnery No opera by Richard Wagner could have been more dramatic. It looked as if it was directed by a genius. It started low-key. A little piece of paper was thrust into the hand of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol as ...
Butterflies in Damascus
Uri Avnery 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. “Serves him right,” people in Madrid commented, ...
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