updated Wed. January 18, 2023
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Antiwar.com
March 24, 2018
The closer Mahmoud Abbas gets to the end of his reign, the more extreme his language becomes. Recently he spoke about Donald Trump and uttered the words "May your house be destroyed". In Arabic this is a common curse, and sounds less extreme than in English. But even in Arabic this is not a usualÃâà...
BBC News
March 22, 2018
Among them was a silver-haired magazine editor, Uri Avnery, who had instructions to present himself at the checkpoint of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) near the Beirut museum. Mr Avnery was about to become the first Israeli to formally meet the PLO leader, Yasser Arafat. He recalls his routeÃâà...
Eurasia Review
March 11, 2018
In the Autumn of 1948, after some eight months of continuous fighting, I was promoted to the lofty rank of corporal. After taking part in a crash course for squad leaders, I was allowed to choose my new soldiers – new immigrants from Poland or Morocco. (Everybody wanted Bulgarians, but the BulgariansÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 6, 2018
Along with the erosion of trust in the two-state solution, there are indications of growing support for the old-new idea of an Israeli-Palestinian confederacy. In his 1968 book, “The War of the Seventh Day,” Uri Avnery — a prominent leader of the Israeli peace camp — called for a joint diplomatic, economic andÃâà...
Haaretz
March 5, 2018
Uri Avnery, with his sharp political senses, wants Netanyahu ousted from power because he believes he's “a disaster for the country” (Haaretz in Hebrew, February 26). Avnery is obviously correct in this assessment. Therefore, if I were an Arab nationalist, I'd pray for Netanyahu to escape all his legalÃâà...
Antiwar.com
March 2, 2018
But then, he is no statesman at all, great or small. I repeat the suggestion I made last week: in due time have him confess, grant him an immediate pardon. Let him keep the loot, and – bye bye, Bibi. Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer, and former member of the Israeli Knesset. Read other articlesÃâà...
Antiwar.com
February 23, 2018
But I remain an optimist. I continue to believe that somehow, somewhere, salvation will come. New political forces will emerge and come to the fore. As our Muslim friends would say: inshallah (God willing). Uri Avnery is a peace activist, journalist, writer, and former member of the Israeli Knesset. Read otherÃâà...
Haaretz
September 18, 2017
My optimism about Israels future annoys many people. How is it possible? The de facto annexation of the occupied territories! The attitude toward Arabs! The growing power of the settlements! But optimism is a state of mind. It does not retreat from evil, it fights it. And you cannot fight it you dont believe thatÃâà...
MWC News
December 31, 1999
Towards the end of 1941, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. Their Nazi ally followed with its own declaration of war, and so did all its satellites. The joke tells about the Hungarian ambassador in Washington who delivered his declaration of war to the Secretary of State,Ãâà...
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