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Dichter's Law

2011-08-14T15:47:12Z

“THE PEOPLE Demand Social Justice!” 250 thousand protesters chanted in unison in Tel Aviv last Saturday. But what they need – to quote an American artist - is “more unemployed politicians”.
Fortunately, the Knesset has gone on a prolonged vacation, three months. For as Mark Twain quipped: “No man's life or property is safe while the legislature is in session.”
As if to prove this point, MK Avi Dichter submitted, on the very last day of the outgoing session, a bill so outrageous that it (…)

- contributions / Demos-Actions, International, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery: When imagined memory replaces the real in Israel

2011-07-11T13:02:44Z

By Uri Avnery
People see elderly, nonviolent human rights activists as dangerous provocateurs because the government and the media tell them so.
For several weeks now, our army and navy have been in a state of high alert, bravely facing a deadly threat to our very existence: 10 little boats trying to reach Gaza. These vessels are carrying a dangerous gang of vicious terrorists, in the form of elderly veterans of peace campaigns.
Benjamin Netanyahu has affirmed our unshakable (…)

- contributions / Edito, Movement, International, Uri Avnery

URI AVNERY ATTACKED BY FASCIST THUGS

2010-06-07T21:46:13Z

“The Government Is Drowning Us All”.
A disaster was averted yesterday (June 5) at Tel-Aviv's Museum Square, when rightists threw a smoke grenade into the middle of the protest rally, obviously hoping for a panic to break out and cause the protesters to trample on each other. But the demonstrators remained calm, nobody started to run and just a small space in the middle of the crowd remained empty. The speaker did not stop talking even when the cloud of smoke reached the stage. The audience (…)

- contributions / Demos-Actions, Extreme right, USA, Uri Avnery

Obama, Israel and AIPAC By URI AVNERY

2008-06-11T05:01:43Z

CounterPunch.org
June 9, 2008
After months of a tough and bitter race, a merciless struggle, Barack Obama has defeated his formidable opponent, Hillary Clinton. He has wrought a miracle: for the first time in history a black person has become a credible candidate for the presidency of the most powerful country in the world.
Source: www.maroc-hebdo.press.ma
And what was the first thing he did after his astounding victory? He ran to the conference of the Israel lobby, AIPAC, and (…)

- contributions / USA, Uri Avnery, US election 2008

Tibet and Palestine By Uri AVNERY (Gush Shalom)

2008-04-09T04:40:37Z

CounterPunch
Apri1 7, 2008
"Not You! You!!!"
"Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!"—the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke.
"Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine!" And that is not a joke.
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LIKE EVERYBODY else, I support the right of the Tibetan people to independence, or at least autonomy. Like everybody else, I condemn (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery: "Death to the Arabs!"

2008-04-06T15:41:51Z

by Uri Avnery
TOMORROW WILL BE the 32nd anniversary of the first "Day of the Land" - one of the defining events in the history of Israel.
I remember the day well. I was at Ben Gurion airport, on the way to a secret meeting in London with Said Hamami, Yasser Arafat's emissary, when someone told me: "They have killed a lot of Arab protestors!"
That was not entirely unexpected. A few days before, we - members of the newly formed Israeli Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace - had handed (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery: "Left, But..."

2006-09-07T22:16:53Z

by Uri Avnery
I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word "but". For example: "Some of my best friends are Jews, but...", "I have nothing against blacks, but...", "I really detest racism, but..."
During the recent war, I frequently heard similar phrases: "I am a leftist, but..." These words were invariably - but invariably! - followed by a rightist statement.
It seems that we have (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Uri Avnery

What Has Happened to the Israeli Army?

2006-08-14T14:57:26Z

What Has Happened to the Israeli Army? by Uri Avnery 14/08/06 So what has happened to the Israeli army?
This question is now being raised not only around the world, but also in Israel itself. Clearly, there is a huge gap between the army's boastful arrogance, on which generations of Israelis have grown up, and the picture presented by this war.
Before the choir of generals utters its expected cries of being stabbed in the back - "The government has shackled our hands! The politicians (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Uri Avnery

The Knife in the Back

2006-08-06T08:58:49Z

by Uri Avnery
"In order to embark on a new course, the only one that will solve the problem: negotiations and peace with the Palestinians, the Lebanese, the Syrians. And: with Hamas and Hizbullah."
The day after the war will be the Day of the Long Knives.
Everybody will blame everybody else. The politicians will blame each other. The generals will blame each other. The politicians will blame the generals. And, most of all, the generals will blame the politicians.
Always, in every (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Uri Avnery

"Stop that shit!"

2006-07-23T20:35:34Z

By Uri Avnery
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. In fact he was only wounded and sent to the hospital.
Lebanese children, covered with wounds, in Beirut hospitals. The funeral of the victims of a missile in Haifa. The ruins of a whole devastated quarter in Beirut. Inhabitants of the north of Israel fleeing south from the (…)

- contributions / Wars and conflicts, International, Uri Avnery