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The case of soldier A
Uri Avnery IT seems that everything possible has already been said, written, proclaimed, asserted and denied about the incident that is rocking Israel. Everything except the main point. The incident revolves around "the Soldier of Hebron". Military censorship does not allow ...
Israel’s summary execution of Palestinians
Uri Avnery By now every Israeli has seen the TV clip several times - showing a 14-year-old Arab girl being shot dead near the central market of Jewish Jerusalem. The story is well known: two sisters, 14 and 16 years old, ...
The media are the terrorist's best friend
Uri Avnery There is no such thing as "international terrorism". To declare war on "international terrorism" is nonsense. Politicians who do so are either fools or cynics, and probably both. Terrorism is a weapon. Like cannon. We would laugh at somebody who ...
Racist Israeli mob lynches Eritrean refugee
Uri Avnery Sometimes, a small incident can pierce the darkness and reveal a frightening picture. This happened last Sunday in Beersheba, the capital of the Negev. The picture was frightening indeed. The incident started as a routine attack, one of many we ...
Israeli settlers have taken over the state
Uri Avnery   Israeli democracy is sliding downwards. Sliding slowly, comfortably, but unmistakably. Sliding where? Everybody knows that: towards an ultra-nationalist, racist, religious society. Who is leading the ride? Why, the government, of course. This group of noisy nobodies which came to power at ...
Abu Mazen: A leader without glory
URI AVNERY I first met Mahmoud Abbas in Tunis at the beginning of 1983. I knew that he was responsible for the Israel desk in the PLO leadership. Said Hamami and Issam Sartawi, the PLO delegates with whom I had been ...
Abu Mazen: A leader without glory
  Uri Avnery     I first met Mahmoud Abbas in Tunis at the beginning of 1983. I knew that he was responsible for the Israel desk in the PLO leadership. Said Hamami and Issam Sartawi, the PLO delegates with whom I had been ...
Nasser and I
  URI AVNERY     FORTY-FIVE years ago Gamal Abdel Nasser died at the early age of 52. It is not an event of the past. It continues to have a huge influence on the present, and probably will on the future. My meetings with ...
‘Don’t talk Zionism!’
Uri Avnery In the early 1950s, I published a story by my friend, Miko Almaz. At the time, the new State of Israel was in dire straits, its leaders did not know how to pay for next month’s food. Someone remembered ...
The face of a Palestinian boy
Uri Avnery The misdeeds of Napoleon's occupation army in Spain were not photographed. Photography had not yet been invented. The valiant fighters against the occupation had to rely on Francisco Goya for the immortal painting of the resistance. The partisans ...
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